Project Week - Praha

      After bit of trouble on Saturday morning we finally managed to leave Duino and eventually get to Prague. We were 10 people and we all stayed at my brothers place right in the centre, which was more than amazing as everything was so close. Our Czech experience started with Czech meal that night and I was surprised that all people actually liked it :)
      On Sunday we managed to visit the exhibition Slavic Epic of Mucha (my favourite Czech artist), most of the historic places of Prague and other many beautiful places. In next few days we have seen another gallery, the Castle, went cycling, visited attraction park and changed the cousine from Chinese to Mexican and finished with Italian restaurant. We all had really amazing time and as we had quite a lot of money left (my country is cheap) we even could effort to go to chocolate museum and cinema. It was interesting, stressful but definitely not regretting event to organize!
       And for the long-weekend I had the chance to stay at home with my family and also see my friends, up for that - Santa and Yulia stayed with me :)

Mucha

The whole group :) 

"The calm before the storm"

     Nothing special is happening, everything is calm, the weather is still changing - from winter to summer, days suddenly stop floating when normally the time is running much more faster than anywhere else, Second years are having their Trials but even their mind is totally above the whole issue - it is still not the real exam, it is hard to say when was the last weekend and how long are we here for - BUT
- the Project Week is coming - all students will spread all around the world to contribute to a two of the CAS challenges, I decided to organize one - Prague, but among this one there are many different places such as Turkey, France, Netherlands...and many others. Well let see how it goes on Saturday - I think I will need a bit of luck for our travel :)

Aquileia and Grado

     Once upon a time there was a Sunday afternoon and the trip with my lovely Czech seconda, Slovakia co-year, seconda and Julius - the only mature adult :)

We spent amazing time visiting the old town of Aquileia and the beaches of Grado. It was beautiful sunny day, yet cold.

Aquileia’s Basilica

Eating ice-cream so we won’t be that cold :) 

With Esterka

Italian Week

     Since there are only few National weeks every year and I missed the first one - African, I was very excited about the Italian week!

     It all started on Thursday night when we listened to music of Fabrizio de André preformed by the Italian students, it was all set up in Mickey’s - the local bar and therefore there was very beautiful and cosy atmosphere! The following was an Italian Show taking place in the Auditorium which consisted different parts of Italian history, music, theatre. We all had to dress up according to what we were told to, I had to be Mara Carfagna - an Italian politician and former showgirl but some of us had to be a pizza :)
     On Saturday afternoon all students had the chance to learn how to cook real Italian food and even the better chance was on Sunday- eating it :) The top was a formal concert of Italian songs performed again by the same amazing singers on Saturday night!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScsxXxq-1IQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3TfBXUOKw

"Carnevale" in Venice

YEEEAAH!

Isn't it an awesome idea to go to Venice and see the famous Carnevale for which people from all over the world are coming to Venice to see it?

Not when it rains and everything is cancelled, let's hope I'll be more lucky next year :)

"See and die"

Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to live in such a beautiful place 

The Sea

 The Castle

The Rilke Path

 The Sunset

But this reminds me it every morning

England or Italy?

        I must say that this is very hard topic to actually talk about...well let say that England and Italy is something totally different. Not only the countries itself but the school system, people, weather...
 Last year I went to typical boarding school in Bruton (near Bath) and it will stay in my memory forever for many different reasons. Maybe we didn't have much freedom and all rules were really strict comparing to Italy but the principles, competition and traditions have its own unique mood. It is much harder to fit in and I probably wouldn't if I didn't have my own international friends (*) but it gave me so much - first of all I have finally learnt how to speak better English, partially understood what it means to be an English person, however one thing I will never understand - their sense of humor ! :D
 - http://www.kingsbruton.com


It is such a big chapter of my life that I would have to make another blog to talk about it....

My best Russian, Spanish and German friend *

 Being English means being very serious (choir) 

Hockey 

One thing I have learnt is that English people loves to have chickens on their gardens 

with my English best friend **