Simona went on a school trip from Italy to Slovenia, where she stayed with a host family and attended school with her partner. She was impressed by the large gym at the school and enjoyed taking part in cultural activities with her new international friends. Some highlights of the trip included visiting the old town, monastery, and wine cellar in Slovenske Konjce, seeing the impressive Postojna Caves and unique human fish, and touring landmarks in Ljubljana and Venice before returning home.

1. SIMONA’S IMPRESSIONS
On 18th February I left from Tortolì to Cagliari airport with my teachers Mrs Zedde Caterina and
Melis Cinzia and my classmates Manuela, Valeria and Siria.
We went from Cagliari to Venice by plane and in the evening at 9 o’clock we left by train to
Lubjana ,the capital city of Slovenia, where we arrived after 5 hours .
In Lubiana we had the possibility to sleep in a very peculiar hostel
…. it used to be a prison!
But the atmosphere there was very warm and relaxing

2. It was a very nice and original hostel in fact every cell was unique as have been
planned by different artists .
details of the cell walls

3. The following day we met Mrs Tatiana and reached our destination “ Slovenske
Konjce2 by bus . There I met Katja and my host family .
On 20h January in the morning Katya and
me went to school. I liked it very much I
have been particularly impressed by the
gym which was really big.
At school we met our partners from
England, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria,
Cyprus, Slovenia, Czech Republic.
We immediately realized that they could
speak English better than us ….anyway,
we managed to communicate with our
friends who have been very kind and friendly .
We took part in a lot of activities : we created some posters with our friendship
dictionary, we learned and sang the songs of each country.
At about 1 0’clock we had lunch in a primary school
canteen. In the afternoon we visited the old town centre,
the church, the monastery of Carthusian .I liked it very much.

4. A
t
7
o’ clock p.m we went back to Katia’s place and had a pizza altogether.
On 21st January we visited Maribor ,a town on the Austrian border and I have been impressed by
its beauty. We walked around the town in the rain.
Then we visited a wine cellar and tasted some
excellent wine.
When we went back to Konjce we practiced for the
concert. The following day we left very early in the
morning and reached the castle Predjamski grad

5. Then we visited The Postojna caves ,they were really very big and impressive ! I liked them very
much.
I have also been impressed by the animals who live there especially by the human
fish the unique specimen in the world. Both the castle and the caves are the places
that I liked best.
In the afternoon we left to Lubiana where we saw some churches ,the city centre,
the three bridges .

6. At about 5 30 our partners returned to Slovenske
Konijce and we remained in Lubiana and had
dinner in a traditional Slovenian restaurant.
The following morning at 2 o’clock we
took the train to Venice where we
arrived at about 7 o’clock in the
morning From Venice we took off to
Cagliari and then to Tortolì by taxi.
I really enjoyed this experience: it gave
me the opportunity of understanding
that English is useful; I saw different
lifestyles and cultures and marvellous
places! …. I look forward to meet my new friends again!