A description:

My partner is Andra, she lives at via calvi 76 in Vicenza.

She is a fan of Guns n' Roses.

Andra likes khung-fu, ice-cream, playing the piano, chocolate, drawing and writing poems.

She has a special interest in me (Melissa).

Her character is nice, friendly and helpful.

She wants to study phylosophy or become a writer.

I like her, because of her character and she is also really funny!

A bad quality is that she is slowly, everything takes a lot of time.

 

The questions:

1. What is the difference between the week in Italy and the week in Holland?

- In Holland everything was good organized and we visited the capital of Holland, but not the capital of Italy.

 

2. What is your opinion about the school you visited?

- It is a nice school, a bit little, but really nice.

 

3. What activities did you do outside the programme and did you liked it?

- We went to the Efteling, we had diner at Loesje's place, we had diner at Upstairs, we went to the pancakeshouse, we went out to

   the centre and we went shopping. I liked it very much and I loved the pancakes!

 

4. How did you experienced the Dutch familylife?

- Very warm, friendly and a bit crazy. but in a positive way.

 

5. What did you see about the food in Holland?

- I loved it, I liked everything, especially stroopwafels!

 

6. What was your impression about Amsterdam?

- It is a big city with a lot of historical buildings and a lot of prejudices, because of the drugs and the redlights.

 

7. How did you experienced Rotterdam?

- I liked it. Rotterdam has a very big harbor, really beautiful. I liked the museum, and I also liked the big city.

 

8. What was the best part of the week?

- The Efteling, I found it really lovely and we had a great time there, it was so nice.

 

9. How was the communication with the Dutch people?

- I had no problemes, it went really good. Almost every Dutch girl or boy could speak English well.

 

10. What do you think are the importants marks of the dutch people that you noticed?

- The people have a nice way of thinking that I like and they are really generous. The Dutchboys and girls are also more mature than

  the Italian boys and girls.

 

11. Did you get new ideas about Holland?

- Yes, I like the food very much, it's better than expected. The girls are well dressed and almost everyone can speak English.

 

12. What was your idea about this country before you came here?

- I thought there were mills and tulips everywhere, but that isn't true.

 

13. What is the difference between the Dutch familylife and the Italian familylife?

- The Dutch family spends a lot of time together, they make their family a big family, because of their neighbours. In Italy sometimes the neighbours say hi, but here the family really talks with their neighbours.

 

14. Did you have prejudices about Dutch people that have changed?

- Not really, but I did think that every Dutch boy was really tall, but that isn't true.

 

15. What don't you like about Holland?

- The redlights, the coffeeshops and the people in Amsterdam were a bit cold.

 

16. What is your opinion about the programme this week?

- I loved it, I had a lot of fun. We always knew what to do. But it was a pity that we had to be in little groups, because we couldn't see

  each other than.

 

17. What would you do better?

- I would meet with one big group, not with a lot of small groups.

 

18. How would you describe this week to your parents and friends when you are home again?

- I would say that the guys are hot and that they are much more mature than the Italian boys. The family was a bit crazy, what I loved, I felt

  really at home. Almost everybody could speak English perfectly.I have made a lot of new friends, especially a little girl, with darkbrown hair,

  darkbrown eyes and a nice way of thinking.

 

 

What I think about the exchange week:

I really liked the exchange week. We had a lot of fun and we made a lot of new friends.

I really liked Andra, she is such a lovely girl, who is really funny, nice and beautiful.

I am really going to miss them, but I guess we'll see each other again!

I also loved doing other things with the other Dutch students, maybe we can still do things like that, only without our Italian partners.