When A Migraine Is Something More

Jasmin-comment comment-Indra

Hi, my name is Jasmin and Indra
at the end of the school year last year I decided to do a year in an Italian school to improve the language. I already knew a girl who had done a year in this school and she said she loved it. So I was even more motivated now and I have spoken with the president that he agreed with my choice. I was informed of what awaited me in Italian schools and the more motivated I went to my first day of the Italian school.
beginning of the school year but I still had problems in the language during the first few weeks are much improved my language and especially the vocabulary.
The classmates were now very kind, I was treated cordially and were ready to help.
Unlike the German school in this school you have to buy more than twenty books for one school year and hardly half of them never used. It would make more sense to reduce the number of books to buy for not spending money on useless books.
I realized that some teachers of various subjects can not finish the whole program of a school year, it still must finish the previous year. So the matter of teaching in higher IV is not the same as the German school.

We see large differences between the two schools in the grammar of Latin, which in the German school was carried out by the end of first quarter of class III. Even in the History of the German school is faster in comparison to the Italian school.
I saw that working is not always very fast during the lesson, there are always lots of writing assignments to do at home, work, and this added to the oral study often asks too much work.
A very positive experience for me was knowing the history of art. The German school had never had this issue and it was even more interesting and helps me in reference to the history of music, I have in the German school.
During the school year I met my best mates, we became friends. Too bad I could not go to Vienna with the class, but I chose a trip to Ireland with my class German also to improve the English.
If I think of all the positive and negative experiences that I have done during this school year I can say I am very happy to have taken this step. There was always plenty to do and often it was hard to maintain the motivation to study, but I'm proud that I did it and recommend it to all those who want to learn Italian better, to take a year out of their school. It's very interesting to learn about the Italian mentality (which is very different than in Germany) and subjected himself to a test. All those who have the courage to make an experience like this have done something to join the Italians and Germans in South Tyrol. What I saw in this school year I take a lot for the future, because I have no fear of speaking in Italian and more courage to deal with new things.

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Delia Ladurner

Delia Ladurner

This year I attend the class IV in high school teaching Italian. Since we are really difficult to learn the Italian language well I made this choice. You could subscribe to this project until the end of March, but since I joined I was still undecided after the deadline. I was afraid of losing all my friends and to stay behind with the curriculum. All summer I kept to think about this possibility, a few weeks before school I made the decision to attend this year an Italian school. First I asked for permission to participate in this project to the dean of my school, then I talked to the dean of the Italian school that welcomed me, told me about the school and handed me the book list. I was a bit 'shocked because there were many more books that list the list of the German school. Luckily my partner also of the German school has made the decision to change schools for one year, so I did not feel alone. The first day of school was terrible, I was afraid that my classmates did not accept me well. But after the 'entry in class are now the girls come to greet us. You could see the diversity of Italian and German mentality, because the Italians are much more open than the Germans. Then we discovered that we were not the only German because suddenly came another girl of the German school. We have presented and then we waited for our coordinator.

The beginning was really difficult because I could not follow the speech of prof. and I was afraid to see something wrong, especially in the affairs of the organization. At first I could not follow the lesson, I had to try almost every word in my vocabulary or electronic request to Susan (the partner school German). I used to take notes during class but luckily no one was taking notes, because he was studying almost all the books and then notes were not always necessary. In subjects such as philosophy, pedagogy, chemistry and Latin (literature) did not understand almost nothing at first. Instead, in subjects like mathematics, physics and history I had no great difficulties because the Italians were to follow the curriculum back to our main, some of the things we did this year, we already did last year. A wonderful experience was the subject of art history, which I had in the German school. I really liked this area, know a little 'artists and their paintings.

The teachers were always kind to us in Germany and were sympathetic if sometimes we could not understand or express something correctly.

beginning until Christmas we helped an Italian Professor of the German school to do homework, to explain difficult texts and to prepare for a question. We met two or three times a week. After Christmas, however, we did not need her because we were able to understand difficult texts themselves. Sometimes in the afternoon we met with our classmates in the library doing homework, they explained to me the materials such as Italian, philosophy, etc.. and I explained to them German and English. We met outside of school, Saturday morning or afternoon to drink something together, to chat. I found some friends in no time. In class, though not always all agree we went there was a more pleasant compared to the German school. In the German school all want to take better grade than her companions, all talk behind his back and almost nobody dares to say things in the face.

I realized that my expressions during the year in the Italian language has improved, I no longer have this fear of talking to an Italian, and I was proud when my German friend asked me to speak in his place in Italian, or help with homework.

Although the start was a bit 'hard to recommend it to all this experience. I'm really glad I attended this year an Italian school. Even my parents are very proud of myself that I had the patience and stamina and now I no longer have to ask my mom for me to speak in Italian. This year I learned a lot, I made new experiences, new social contacts and I got an impression of the Italian mentality.