Exchange by Hanna

                          

Students’ exchange with Italy

by Hanna Rahel Slungin

I took part in this year’s students’ exchange. I got to host a super nice Italian girl whose name is Veronica. She arrived on the Thursday evening just like all the others. Instantly we started talking about everything you can imagine and we got along very well.

The first full day with Italians was Friday. In the Friday morning me and Veronica got up at 7 o’clock to prepare to go to school. At school we didn’t see each other too much, because Italians were doing their own things. They went on a tour around the school, had a computer lesson and even visited the Kanepi parish goverment building. Although, we still had one Estonian lesson together where we showed different presentations and solved two crosswords about Estonia and Italy. Later in the day we also had a basketball match between Italians and Estonians which the Italians won.

Later in the evening we went to a party where Estonian language, culture and so much more was shown us. We tried some tongue twisters, we danced, singed and had a really good time.

On Sunday morning we woke up at 9 o’clock and got ready to go to Tartu with Kadri and Marta. They picked us up a little bit after 10 o’clock and we drove to Tartu. The first place we went to was Ahhaa science museum. It was really fun and we had a great time. I hadn’t ever been there before either so it was just as interesting to me as to the Italians. After spending couple hours in Ahhaa we went to a small restaurant called Ylicool. It was really fancy and the food was really good. 

We spent the second half of the day solving a Escape Room game. We chose to go to the Sherlock’s room. It wasn’t too hard of a puzzle to solve, but definitely not a really easy one either as we needed couple hints during the game. In the end we finished the game and I think we actually did very well.

At the end of the day we were really tired, but there’s no doubt that we had a lot of fun. Veronica said that it was the best day so far of the students’ exchange and i totally agree with her. It really was a great day.