OUR PENPALS FROM ITALY

Our peers from Italy are 16 and 17 years old. We have come into contact with them thanks to co-operation between our teacher Mrs Danuta Mirońska and theirs Ms Roberta Spicemele.
They attend Secondary Medical School called IPSIA "Ceconi". It is a vocational type, very big school situated in Udine. Their hometown lies in the north-east of Italy, close to the border with Austria and Slovenia. Its population is about 100.000 inhabitants. More details about it you will find on the page "Their hometown Udine".
The school has about 1000-1200 students who follow 6 different courses. "Operatori dei servizi sociali" educate social workers. In 3 years they get the first degree and they are allowed to work by giving assistance to babies (0-3 years old), people with handicaps and old people. After these three years they can continue studying for another 2 years to obtain the degree "technicians in social services". Just they can join the university (especially in educational subjects and nursering).
We also found out that it is vocational school with many branches: electronics, mechanics, chemistry, dental science and social service branch. Their school offers students many activities: drama, music, comics, computer, sports (volley, basketball , football, athletics, etc.).
They wrote us about their interests, hobbies and favourite way of spending free time.
It appears that their pastime is similar to ours, no matter where we live.
We exchanged opinions about our school, hometown and Christmas traditions.
One day we were very surprised when we got a parcel from Italy. It contained travel-guides, maps, brochures in English about their hometown.
See: our photo gallery. There is a picture of our friends from Italy.

Prepared by Kataryna Rogóż