TOGETHER AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ERASMUS+

Erasmus + 

Project Number 2019-1–IT02-KA229-063323 

TOGETHER AGAINST DISCRIMINATION 

5th LTTA Program in Acquaviva delle Fonti – Italy

C5 – Promoting equality

8th – 15th  may 2022

The aim of this document is to show the feelings of our students in this Eramus program in order to sum up our trip with the best moments for us each day of the week with photos and some anecdotes.

The team who have participated in this project are:

• As student:  Elena Aranda Gamiz, Mª del Mar Bono Lucas, Irene Gascon Caruana, Carla Graullera Ros and Carmen Guillem Núñez.

• As teacher:  Noelia Aleixandre Bonanad and Àngela Burguete Monfort

Sunday 8

“When we arrived to Italy I was very excited because I wanted to know were we were going to sleep”, said Irene.

“The taxi driver was very nice.” said Mari.

“We had dinner in a bar that had a ground floor, some pizzas, I had a basic margarita and my friends wanted to innovate to try new flavors, but Carmen and I didn’t” said Carla.

Monday 9

“It was the first day of high school and we were going to meet everyone and we were nervous and happy. “ said Elena.

“The Italians, Bulgarians and Romanians made their presentation. We danced with the Italian students, it was very funny!!” said Irene

“The Italians taught us some typical dances from there. They explained us that dancing is an important tool to avoid any kind of discrimination. After that we ate and did a group work on geography, in which we learned a lot about it.” said Carmen.

“Another thing that I loved was the food that they gave, it was great.” said Mari

“Three countries exhibited their work and we began to talk a little more with the Italian students. In the afternoon, we visited the major of Acquaviva, he was really kind with us.” said Carla

Tuesday 10

“We spent all day on a trip and talked more with everyone, ate the typical pasta and enjoyed it very much.” said Elena

“We made a quite long trip a little more to the center from there and we really enjoyed it, we had a great time.” said Carla

“We went to Lecce and Otranto by bus. I really enjoyed these two cities, they were very beautiful. We had lunch in Lecce I ate orecchiette which is a typical type of pasta.” said Irene

Wednesday 11

“We presented the project and we were nervous but everything went great and we had a great time, also presented Turkey.” said Elena

“The Turkish team made the presentation and we did it too. I was quite nervous but everything went well.” said Irene

“We started doing group work where my friends and I started to socialize a little more, that same morning I made an Italian friend and she is the one I miss the most” said Carla

“Afterwards I had a great time since we had to make a video about equality with people we did not know from other countries. At night we had dinner with all the countries except the Italians but we became more friends with the Romanians.” said Mari

“We did a group work and met new people, in the morning. In the afternoon we went on a trip to another ancient city, Matera. Furthemore, in the evening we went to dinner with some of the countries.” said Carmen

Thursday 12

“We made another excursion to some very beautiful cities where we saw many things, spent the whole day outside” said Carmen.

“I especially enjoyed Alberobello, it was amazing.” said Carla

“ I liked the most was Alberobello, they all had beautiful white houses and we ate delicious pasta there that amazed me.” said Mari.

“We visited beautiful cities, I bought lots of souvenirs and at night all countries had dinner together.” said Elena

“We were very tired and we had dinner with the Bulgarian and Romanian student.” said Irene.

Friday 13

“It was the last day at the institute so we watched videos of the whole week and also the ones we recorded on Wednesday which were very cool” said Mari.

“The hardest day of all, saying goodbye to the Italians hurt us a lot, we became very fond of them, they gave us our diplomas.” said Carla.

“We had to say goodbye to the others and it was very hard. We had dinner with some countries because some left before. I was very sad. I really like the dinner but when we left I started to cry in the middle of the street.” said Irene

“At 11 o'clock we took a taxi and we returned to Bari to a cool B&B.” said Carmen.

 

“In the evening we all had dinner together, except for some countries that left before and we had a great time but we cried a lot” said Elena

Saturday 14

“We went for breakfast and walked a long way, but it was worth it. We were able to go to the beach!!!!” said Elena.

“We went to find a breakfast place near the beach, as I enjoyed that orange juice. In the morning we went to swim at a beach and in the afternoon we walked around Bari and its shops” said Carla.

“At dinner time we went to a restaurant and watched Eurovision. When we came back to the hotel we saw the votes and we had a great time.” said Mari.

 “At night we watched Eurovision with the teachers and we suffered a lot when we saw Eurovision, we started shouting and clapping at midnight” said Carmen and Irene.

Sunday 15

“On the last day of Erasmus, we were all very sad and didn't want to leave. We spent the day in the city, shopping and looking at things and we ate ice cream!!!! The last one.” said Carmen

“ A very sad day to know that we were not going to set foot in that city again, in the morning we took another turn” said Carla

“We spent all the morning shopping and for lunch I ate pasta, it was delicious. Then Noelia started to feel bad and I was a little scared. A taxi took us to the airport and we had to wait a lot, so we continue shopping. When I was in the plane I was very sad and that was the worst part of the day.” said Irene

“We ate spaghetti with meatballs, it was very good. and we went to the airport.” said Mari

“When we boarded the plane there was a beautiful sunset and I was in seat 2C, it went by very fast and we arrived in Spain. We were sad, tired and thinking about repeating the experience next year” said Elena.