Hi guy,
This second semester is started and another exchange is started too. I wrote in some posts before that the first experience my class had with the Padova-Albany exchange totally failed, and so I was very exiting to start this second semester with its big news.
So last Wednesday, during our usua lesson in the lab, Zara and I had our first Skype exchange with Artem, a really sweety American boy from the University of Dickinson. I think that we all three enjoyed very much, we created a wonderful group of work and found this activity very interesting. What is more, we discovered that in our future discussion we will speak not only in Italian and English, but a little bit in Russian and Romanian too, it's great.
At the beginning Zara and I were very shy and scared too and we hadn't no idea about how start the conversation, but after few minuts we became more confident and we started to talked a lot (in fact at the end of the call I apologised with Artem for my talkativeness :-) ). It was great to discover how interesting and usefull could be this kind of experience. First of all we have the opportunity to speak with a real native English speaker, to listen his pronuntiation and to check our own mistakes. Secondly, by using Skype (it was the first time for me), I understood how easy and simple can be come in contact with people very far away from here.
About the topics of our conversation, we briefly introduced ourselves and than we started with the topic Sarah proposed us for this firts week: American-Italian educational systems, American-Italian lifestyle. It was very interesing speak about them also because Artem said us that he is not an American native boy; he comes from Ucraina, but lives there for three years, and so we had the opportunity to see these various aspects under another point of view: that of a foreing student who lives in American and can easily combine them together.
Zara asked Artem about the costs sustained by Dickinson student to follow the courses. 45,000 dollars per year, but he adds that in the America foreign students normally have financial aids (similar to our "borsa di studio") that allow them to pay the college. After some other little explanations about Artem's preferences, the content of the discussion changed because Zara started to talk about the present political situation in US. I'm not very interested in this topic so I left Zara went on with this topic and I stayed quite for some minutes. Fortunately we decided to discuss about elections next time, and I hope that within one week Zara can forget about it :-)
After that we talked about Italian lifestyle as well. We discovered that Artem is a very soccer addicted (he loves the team of Milan so much ) and so we said him that he' s going to have a lot of soccer-addicted friends next year when he'll live in Italy. He is a very funny boy, educated and very interested in this exchange as well. We tried to speaks Italian too; he had some difficulties but Zara and I were very good Italian teacher for him.
To sum up I can say I had a very positive impression about my American peer and about this starting too. I'm very enthusiastic of it and I'm waiting for the next second "round"
Alessandra
This second semester is started and another exchange is started too. I wrote in some posts before that the first experience my class had with the Padova-Albany exchange totally failed, and so I was very exiting to start this second semester with its big news.
So last Wednesday, during our usua lesson in the lab, Zara and I had our first Skype exchange with Artem, a really sweety American boy from the University of Dickinson. I think that we all three enjoyed very much, we created a wonderful group of work and found this activity very interesting. What is more, we discovered that in our future discussion we will speak not only in Italian and English, but a little bit in Russian and Romanian too, it's great.
At the beginning Zara and I were very shy and scared too and we hadn't no idea about how start the conversation, but after few minuts we became more confident and we started to talked a lot (in fact at the end of the call I apologised with Artem for my talkativeness :-) ). It was great to discover how interesting and usefull could be this kind of experience. First of all we have the opportunity to speak with a real native English speaker, to listen his pronuntiation and to check our own mistakes. Secondly, by using Skype (it was the first time for me), I understood how easy and simple can be come in contact with people very far away from here.
About the topics of our conversation, we briefly introduced ourselves and than we started with the topic Sarah proposed us for this firts week: American-Italian educational systems, American-Italian lifestyle. It was very interesing speak about them also because Artem said us that he is not an American native boy; he comes from Ucraina, but lives there for three years, and so we had the opportunity to see these various aspects under another point of view: that of a foreing student who lives in American and can easily combine them together.
Zara asked Artem about the costs sustained by Dickinson student to follow the courses. 45,000 dollars per year, but he adds that in the America foreign students normally have financial aids (similar to our "borsa di studio") that allow them to pay the college. After some other little explanations about Artem's preferences, the content of the discussion changed because Zara started to talk about the present political situation in US. I'm not very interested in this topic so I left Zara went on with this topic and I stayed quite for some minutes. Fortunately we decided to discuss about elections next time, and I hope that within one week Zara can forget about it :-)
After that we talked about Italian lifestyle as well. We discovered that Artem is a very soccer addicted (he loves the team of Milan so much ) and so we said him that he' s going to have a lot of soccer-addicted friends next year when he'll live in Italy. He is a very funny boy, educated and very interested in this exchange as well. We tried to speaks Italian too; he had some difficulties but Zara and I were very good Italian teacher for him.
To sum up I can say I had a very positive impression about my American peer and about this starting too. I'm very enthusiastic of it and I'm waiting for the next second "round"
Alessandra
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