Martina+B.

hola a todos!!!!! i'm martina a student of liceo amaldi who decided to go to an year abroad with the AFS program. it's an exchange program, where students all over the world decide to go to an another coutry to learn a new culture and a new language. In this new country they live in a new family, they go to a new school and they have a new life..completely different from the one they used to have in their natural country!!!!! Now i'm in Honduras, a small country of 7 millions people,in Central America. Here people are very poor and the price of life is very law..but the spirit of each person is so rich that i think i will never meet people like these in Italy or in another country of Europe... Here people think that italian eat only pasta and pizza..and they know alla about the italian football!!!!!!!!...and when you say that you're from Italy they immagine Italy like United States..because it's a country of UE and they say:"Oh well..they have money..so there there are very big streets and many high skyscraper.." like in New York..or something like this..but it's not like this!!!!!!!and i tell them... I think I'm falling in love with this culture and his people...because they are so happy..always!!!! Now mY spanish is better than when I arrived here...but I have to learn more and more and more..and more and more of this culture..until when i could feel a real hondurean girl!!!!!!! now i go...i have to study for tomorrow..chemistry exam!!!!!!!!! i'll write soon!!!!!!! adios chicos!!!!!! Martina

Buenas!!!!! Here in Honduras is all so weird!!!!!!..it's all so cool!!!!!!...I don't wanna go back to Italy, even if it's my native country...but now i want you to show something about my school here...at first it's a bilingual school so i have to study in spanish and in english too..and in recess i have to speak in english...to improve it!!!!!...oral conversations in english...but i can't...and i like more spanish...so...i talk in spanish, but the teachers always tell me that i have to speak in english...and if they hear you speaking in spanish they give you a ditencion..and now they've already given me two!!!!!...and this means ten points less in one class...i didn't know this!!!!!..so now i'm trying to speak in english. Oh well, classes...here classes are very differents from Italy. First of all they last 40 minuts, start at 7 a.m. and finish at 1.40 p.m.;every day we have like nine classes with two breaks of 20 minuts. Here we haven't tests like in Italy, every day, oral and written tests, but the years is divided in 4 periods(1,2,3,4, parcial); each parcial is divided in 2 periods too and at the end of these, we have an exams week; so eight periods of exams each year. The first session of each period is of 20 points, while the second is of 40 points; the maximum score is 100, so the rest of the points (40 points) are given by the teachers from the homeworks, classworks, presence, and there are extra points too for social activities. I don't know if it is a good description and if you understood, but I tried. And more, the students of eleventh grade (the last year) have to do social work, so i'm doing social work, working in a nursery, with all the plants and all the -tierra?-..we do this three times a week, from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. and this is so hard for me...because I come back home at six and you have to know that i go out at 5.45 a.m, because i go to school in a small bus that keeps me up at this time...but i'm enjoying it..i love honduras more and more... But now I have to go, because I'm at school...and I "jumped" the spanish class to write this...but i'm an exchange student..i can do what i want...ahahahahah..i'm joking..i don't have internet at home...so i have to use someone's computer!!!!! i'll write soon again!!!!!to show you how is christmas here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cuidese!!!!!!!que ve vaya bien!!!!! Martina
 * __5 Diciembre 2007__**