SIMONA’S IMPRESSIONS

On 18th February I left from Tortolì to Cagliari airport with my teachers Mrs Zedde Caterina and Melis Cinzia and my classmates Manuela, Valeria and Siria.

We went from Cagliari to Venice by plane and in the evening at 9 o’clock we left by train to Lubjana ,the capital city of Slovenia, where we arrived after 5 hours .

In Lubiana we had the possibility to sleep in a very peculiar hostel

…. it used to be a prison!

But the atmosphere there was very warm and relaxing

It was a very nice and original hostel in fact every cell was unique as have been planned by different artists .

details of the cell walls

The following day we met Mrs Tatiana and reached our destination “ Slovenske Konjce2 by bus . There I met Katja and my host family .

On 20h January in the morning Katya and me went to school. I liked it very much I have been particularly impressed by the gym which was really big.

At school we met our partners from England, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovenia, Czech Republic.

We immediately realized that they could speak English better than us ….anyway, we managed to communicate with our friends who have been very kind and friendly .

We took part in a lot of activities : we created some posters with our friendship dictionary, we learned and sang the songs of each country.

At about 1 0’clock we had lunch in a primary school canteen. In the afternoon we visited the old town centre, the church, the monastery of Carthusian .I liked it very much.

At 7

o’ clock p.m we went back to Katia’s place and had a pizza altogether.

On 21st January we visited Maribor ,a town on the Austrian border and I have been impressed by its beauty. We walked around the town in the rain.

Then we visited a wine cellar and tasted some excellent wine.

When we went back to Konjce we practiced for the concert. The following day we left very early in the morning and reached the castle Predjamski grad

Then we visited The Postojna caves ,they were really very big and impressive ! I liked them very much.

I have also been impressed by the animals who live there especially by the human fish the unique specimen in the world. Both the castle and the caves are the places that I liked best.

In the afternoon we left to Lubiana where we saw some churches ,the city centre, the three bridges .

At about 5 30 our partners returned to Slovenske

Konijce and we remained in Lubiana and had

dinner in a traditional Slovenian restaurant.

The following morning at 2 o’clock we

took the train to Venice where we

arrived at about 7 o’clock in the

morning From Venice we took off to

Cagliari and then to Tortolì by taxi.

I really enjoyed this experience: it gave

me the opportunity of understanding

that English is useful; I saw different

lifestyles and cultures and marvellous

places! …. I look forward to meet my new friends again!