Written by Laur

 Student’s exchange

19. January 2017

This year our school planned an exchange with the Italians from Saluzzo. There were 25 Italian students and 2 teachers, but much less Estonians to accommodate them. Anyone who could provide shelter, were expected to help with accommodating the Italians even if they won’t go to Italy. I too offered my help to host the Italians.

It was the first day of my first exchange. The Italians were expected to arrive in Kanepi at about 8pm. All of the Estonians, including me, were waiting at Kanepi’s bus station to welcome them. My exchange partners name was Alessandro Tamagnone. I was quite nervous and excited to meet him.

When the bus finally came, I shook hands with Alessandro and introduced my mom to him. When we reached home, I introduced our house and let him settle in. Afterwards we ate some soup, taught each other some card games and played some computer games.

20. January 2017

We wake up at 7:30am, just in time for breakfast. For breakfast we had omelette with some sandwiches, luckily he liked it. After eating the food, we hurried to school. We put our clothes to the closet and I took him to the gathering point. We met again after the third lesson. The fourth lesson Alessandro and four other Italians were joining us in mathematics. As I soon learned, they were much smarter and ahead of us in maths. 

In the afternoon we had a basketball match, Estonians versus the Italians. It was a tense game, at half-time we were leading by 4 points, but in the end they started gaining some points and we lost.

21. January 2017

We got up at 7:30am, just as usual. We ate our breakfast and went to school again, although it was Saturday. At school we were all divided into two groups. We went with our group to the snake exhibition. We were taught about snakes generally and also about their anatomy. We could also see and touch all of the snakes there. There were 4 little and one big snake. The exhibition was very interesting and amusing. 

After snake exhibition we heard a presentation about Estonian military. The presenter taught us about Estonians history and showed us some videos of infantry drills.