Day 1

The exchange program was with the students from the institution of higher secondary education "A. Greppi" in Monticello Brianza (LC) Italy. There are a lot of small villages with small population. Villages have different names but actually they look like one sweet town. From villages to the school some students go by bus, others go to the school by car. The way can take 20 minutes or 1 hour, it depends on the distance from the village to the school. For example Polina woked up at 6.30 and left home at 7.10. From home to the bus stop Polina and her exchange partner ( Martina Rocco) went by car, on the bus stop they waited the bus to the school. Katya and her partner ( Giulia Colombo ) went to school by car. They drove near 35 min. 
The school day began at 8.00. Firstly, our group was asked to visit headmister's office. From that place we had an excursion in school. Sveta ( she's from Ukraine) showed us their school. It's sooooo big! Italian pupils say that it looks like a prison (in some way it's true). The classrooms are rather big. The sistem of study is different than in Russia (at school they study 13 years : 5 years of primary school, 3 years of secondary school, 5 years of high school).At school we had a lot of Russian lessons and 2 chemistry lessons. At Russian we told about Russia, showed film about Yaroslavl, which we had prepared before the trip and had a conversation with Italian students in Russian language. At Chemistry Italian students showed some experiments.

After lessons we had time with our partners and families.

For example Katya and Nastya went to Nastya's partner Irene with Sveta to Irene's house where her mom cooked a wonderful dinner for them. Later they went for a walk, met some friends and near 6 o'clock Giulia took Katya with her to her friends. They should make a dance. So they danced and had fun. 

Polina spend time home and had a really wonderful and delicious dinner with her family. 

The day was full of impressions for all of us so we fell asleep immediately.