Written by Kristen Kalev

Students’ exchange with Italy

I took apart in a students’ exchange with Italian students from Saluzzo. They arrived at Kanepi  on Thursday evening with Lux Express. Mine Italian pal – Tommaso was the first one who stepped out from the bus. Surprisingly, he was also the tallest one of the Italians, at least it seemed so. 

Tommaso is a very chill guy who takes everything with ease and doesn’t let himself to be disturbed of anything. He is a motocross fan like me so we had a lot of things to talk about.

The busiest day of our week was Sunday. We didn’t wake up that early, but still there was a lot of things to do. After having breakfast we headed to Adrenalin Arena in Sõmerpalu, which is the biggest motocross hall in Europe. When we arrived, we saw many riders practicing there with quadracers and some solo motorbikes. We visited the hall’s museum and watched some bikes. 

After half hours chilling in the hall we headed to Tartu to see sidecars and the trucks which are the homes of the riders for a motocross season starting in April and ending in September. We also had a look over the engine that had broke in the last season. 

We got hungry and luckily we had a good fast-food place nearby – the home of Tartu’s finest Chicken Wrap - Sirius. We loved it, unfortunately the time was passing by fast and we had to leave Tartu. 

Back in Kanepi we pulled on some clothes for an ATV ride and went to Tauno’s place. Tauno was heating the sauna and while it was heating up we went to a ride to Jõksi. Sauna was ready to use in 2 hours and when we got there, it was 102 degrees of Celsius in there. Italians didn’t like the heat so much so my Italian friend went closer to the floor. 

After sauna we went to the studio, where I and Tauno were getting ready for the EDM show for Kanepi youth center’s birthday party. The Italians tried to also mix something up with the DJ mixer, surprisingly they were better than usual rookies. Then we watched a movie called Deadpool, when the movie ended it was quite late already and I went home with Tommaso.

I liked the exchange very much and I hope sincerely that these projects will keep on going.