La vita es bella

Since 4 years, our school is involved in a Comenius project. We are now in our second project. The project is about Autism and we are in the project with schools from Italy, Romania, Ireland, Turkey and our school.

Last week we went to Rimini, Italy to go and vist there school and organisations that works with Autism. Me, L and C, had the chance to go to Rimini and we has a wonderfull experience.

In the school, all the students with autism and dissabilities are included in the mainstreamschools. It is amazing to see how many support teachers they have in the classes. Sometimes, there are 3, teachers in one classroom. The childeren with a disability get a one to one education.

The school was like a little village. There were wooden barracs, that were build after the World war by the Suisse. The gates were open around the school and they told us that there were no childeren that tried to escape. Lunch in school... we ate together with the childeren in there classrooms. They get a warm meal every day at lunch in school.

The last day after the meeting, we went to an other country, our i should say Republic. We took the bus and after 1 houre, we were in San Marino. One of the most beautiful places on earth. It was so amazing how beautifull it was. We were abouve the clouds and the sun was going down. In that nice setting, we went shopping and the 3 of us, we bought a new handbag...

During the trip, we had a lot of formal talks, but also a lot of informal talks... But those informal talks are as important as the formal talks.

Sometimes I feld a little lost in translation... All the presentations were in Italian (thanks to the French and little Spanisch I speak, I understood some of the things), translated by someone in Englisch and then every country started to translate it in there own language...

Next to the meetings during the day, we also had some freetime in the late afternoon and evening. Time to discover the city, the beach ...

I know one thing, I will go back to Italy. I love the country, the food (Nutella Icecream, seefood, Limonchello, Presecco...) and the people.

I want to say a very big thank you to the teachers of Ceis. It is amazing how dedicated they are to there job. They gave us a great experience and went home with a suitcase full of toughts.