Thursday, March 10, 2011

Trip to High School

Today we went to the local Castig high school and talked to the students so they could practice their English and interact with native speakers. IT was so fun! Going there we thought we were going to be speaking to a younger group (about 12 years old) and an older group. However, the first group turned out to be 18-20 year olds- so definitely no warm up with the younger children. It seems that we talked about everything! School, hobbies, movies, places to travel, siblings, pets, going out, sports, etc. As for holidays- they seem to celebrate Christmas the same, with Santa Claus and family meals.They don't have the Easter bunny, so explaining that was fun, they definitely had a laugh. They have a variation of the tooth fairy, but it's a mouse instead. And as for Halloween, they dress up and celebrate, but they don't trick-or-treat because apparently the older generation of Italians will throw water out of the windows at people.
Another thing was funny- they brought up drinking and we told them that the drinking age in America is 21. When we were talking to the 18 year old group they told us the drinking age is 18, and then when we talked to the 16 year old group they told us the drinking age is 16. Katie and I had a good laugh about that. Both groups said that the drinking age isn't really an issue and that the bars/pubs don't care. It explains why I see people in bars that look like they are 12 years old. But going to the high school and interacting with the locals is definitely one of my favorite things we've done so far. We've got some pretty sweet new Facebook friends now too! Hah!

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