Francesco's family lives in a three-floor house with an amazing view in Übelbach, Austria. Graz's main square, Der Hauptplatz, has the city hall and food stands, including Christmas lights. Riegersburg Castle has three parts to visit about witches, weapons, and history. The school Francesco attends, BG Rein, is situated in Rein and is part of the oldest continuously used monastery in Europe. Francesco enjoyed his exchange experience in Finland, going on trips to places like Vierumaki for sports and Loppi for mushroom picking by a summer cottage.

2. MY HOME AND
MY FAMILY
Francesco's family is
composed of: his faher, his
mother, his two brothers
and his sister.
The house is on a mountain
in Übelbach. It has three
floors and the view is
amazing, with or without
the snow!!

3. GRAZ’S MAIN SQUARE
– DER HAUPTPLAZ
Hauptplatz is the principal square.
There you can find the city hall
and a lot of stands where they sell
the food and, around Christmas
time, there are a lot of beautiful
lights and some stands with
handmade things.

4. RIEGERSBURG
Riegersburg is the biggest fortitude of Austria. Inside the castle you can visit
three parts: the parton the witches, the part on the weapons or the tour
about the history of the castle. You can see everything from the top!

5. THE SCHOOL – BG REIN
The school is situated in Rein and is part of a monastery. The monastery is the
oldest monastery still used in Europe. It's really really big!
.

7. MY EXPERIENCEThe school is so different,we did a lot of things there. We had 5 times a week of art,something that we
never done in Naples. The school is so big, with a lot of different classes of all the subjects that you can
imagine. We liked all the teachers. We studied French, German and English.
One of the things that is a special Finnish thing is the NASUT: it consists
to throw food to the students from the first year and to let them make stupid games. For us it was like an
act of bullying know to everyone. We think that it was one of the strange thing that we ever seen. But for
them this activity represents an important thing , because it is a Finnish tradition.
We went also in Vierumaki, that is the sport city of Finland. We played tennis, we went to the flow park, to
the gym and we did forthe first time the sauna. It’s an amazing thing. We loved so much. It’s so helpful for
the muscles and is a relaxing thing, and we adore this kind of stuffs.
We visited some places here,like Loppi, that is a town near Helsinki, more or less one hour and a half
from the city. Susu has there a summer cottage where we went two times. It’s a very big house, all made
of wood. We went looking for mushrooms both the two times. We ate them, they were so good. We went
fishing, and we took some crabs, that we ate with butter and bread.There we did the sauna and we used
the KOIVU(Birch).

8. LAPLAND
THE MOST EXCITINGTHING THAT I DID THERE WASOUR TRIPFORNORD KAPPWITHA CAMPERDURING OURAUTUMN BREAK,THE NORTHEST
PART OFTHE EUROPE.WEPASSED FORLAPLANDAND NORWAY.WESPENT 6 NIGHTSIN THE “HOUSE CAR”.IT WASSO NICE, I’DNEVER BEEN IN A
SIMILARONE BEFORE.WEWERE4: KALLE, SUSU’S FATHER,ANNIKA,SUSU’S SISTER, SUSU AND I. I SLEPT INTHE BED WITHSUSU. EVERY
EVENING WEPLAYEDTO SAME TABLE GAME. WESAWREINDEERS,KILLERWHALES, SEALS, WE WENTTO THE SEA, TO A ZOO,WETOOK 2 BOATS
IN NORWAY.ITWASSO EXCITINGBUT , SO COLD, THERE WASA LOT OF SOW, BUT IT WASFINE.INNORWAYWAS-6 DEGREES, BUT THEY SAID
THAT WASNOT A SPECIAL EVENT , SO IN A WAYI WASLUCKY,ALSO BECAUSE NOWTHERE IS -20… AND WEARE JUST IN NOVEMBER.WHENWE
WEREIN LAPLANDWEWENTTO THE REAL FACTORYOFSANTA CLAUS.WE TOOKA PHOTO ALL TOGETHER. THEY ASKED ME TO SING… I TRIEDTO
SING “ O SOLE MIO” BUT I MISSED THE WORDSBECAUSE I WASINFRONT OF SANTA CLAUS….IT WASSO EMBARRASSING!THERE I TRIEDTHE
REINDEERMEAT,IN TWOWAYS,COOKEDAND SMOKED.I LOVE IT.IT’S THE MOST FAMOUSFOODTHERE. IN SEVEN DAYS I SAWFIVE TIMES
THE NORDENLIGHTS... I DON’T HAVE WORDSFORTHEM.THEY WEREABSOLUTELY THE MOST BEAUTIFULAND AMAZINGTHINGTHAT I EVER SEEN
IN MY LIFE.THE COLOR,THE SOUND , THE PLACE WHEREWEWERE,THE SNOW.. A REALDREAM!. IT WILLBE FOREVERIN MY MIND,LIKE A PHOTO.

9. MY EXPERIENCE
• THE FIRST WEEKOF NOVEMBER MY FAMILY AND MY
BOYFRIEND CAME THEREFOR ONE WEEK.WE WENTTO
TALLINN, IN ESTONIA, FOR ONE DAY. IT’S . A LITTLEAND
CUTE CITY.I LIKEDITSO MUCH.WE WENT ALSO TO
SUOMELINNA, A SMALL ISLAND, COLD BUT BEAUTIFUL.
IN THATWEEK WE SAW LOTSOF THINGS, LIKE THE
SUPERMARKETOF HELSINKI,SOME CHURCHES,ALLTHE
CITY.
• ONE OF THELAST DAYS VILMA, SUSU, , NILOAND US
WENT TO A TRAMPOLINPARK, WITH THREEASYLUM
SEEKERS.IT WAS SO FUNNY. WITH THEMWE ALSO
WENT TO BOWLING, AND WE DID SOME FOOD ALL
TOGETHERAT SCHOOL.

11. THE FAMILY AND THEIR HOUSE
I stayedfrom 8th Septemberto 6th December in Berlin at LisaSpielmann.I’ve changed thefamily
in the middle of theexperience because of Lisa health’sproblems and I went to Anita Moeck’s
family
In this house there are threetoilets(two upstairs)(one is for Anita, one for her fatherand one for
her sister),two living room(one upstairs),a kitchen, an office, the musicroom (my preferred : you
can lay on thesoft rug and listento classicalmusic for relaxing).I've my personal bedroomand I
share the bathroom/toiletwithAnita
Anita has been my host.She is so amazing: nothing is impossiblefor her! We
loved to watch movies together (obviously in German with Germanor English
subtitles).Sheloves baking, in fact a day she bakeda delicious “Donauwelle”(a
cake).Shelives with her father, Mathias:he'sso cute, very careful for everything
and always considerate.He's interestedaboutmy life, my country's traditions
and my day's projects

12. THE SCHOOL
THE SCHOOL IS AMAZING; THERE'S ANOTHER SYSTEM: SO THE STUDENTS CHANGE
ROOM EVERY LESSON, BECAUSE EVERY SUBJECT ITS OWN ROOM, LIKE THE ART
ROOM: IT IS BEAUTIFUL, WITH A LOT OF DRAWS, COLOR PENCILS AND EVERY KIND
OF THINGS YOU NEED FOR DRAWING . EVERY LESSON TAKES 80 MINUTES AND THIS
TIME IS CALLED "BLOCKUNTERRICHT". THE SCHOOL IS COMPOSED OF THREE
BUILDINGS: "HAUS 1" AND "HAUS 2" ARE FOR GUYS OF MY AGE; THE "HAUS
FROSCH" IS GREEN AND FOR YOUNG GUYS. IN THE "HAUS 1" THERE IS THE CANTEEN
WHERE EVERYONE CAN BUY A WARM FOOD, AND THERE'S A MACHINE WITH WHICH
YOU CAN MAKE FULL OF WATER YOUR BOTTLE . THERE'S A SUPERMARKET NEAR THE
SCHOOL, IF SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE THE FOOD OF THE CANTEEN. ABOUT THE
LESSONS, IT'S SO STRANGE TO FOLLOW THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE ONES, BECAUSE
THE TEACHER EXPLAINS THE WORDS AND TRANSLATES IN THEIR NATIVE
LANGUAGE, AND FOR ME THEY ARE BOTH FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

13. SPREEPARK
I've seen the river thatflows through Berlin: "die Spree”. All
there’s a beautiful park where someone can stay on the
grass or sit on the bench and see the river. The park is all
natural: trees, grass, flowers everywhere
BERLINZOO
That’ssuch a greatand beautiful place ! it’svery big (you
need 4/5 hours to visit just the zoo), and there was every
kind of animals:from the polarbear to the camel. I saw
the polar wolf (so beautiful and powerful), the brown
bear (so cute), the reindeer(before I thought they were
elks, but after I translatedthe name).The best of all
(after pandas,of course) are the elephants:I discovered
thatthere are two sorts of elephant(a Chineseone and
an African one: you see thedifference from the ears,
because the Chineseone has smaller ones thanthe
African have ), and I sawthe Chinese male one, so he had
long tusks

14. LUSTGARTEN
IT'S A VERY BIG SQUARE WHERE THERE'SA GARDEN WITH NEAR
A CHURCHAND DAS ALTE MUSEUM. I LOVE EVERYTHINGABOUT
THE GREECE(FIRSTOF ALL, THE MYTHOLOGY),AND THE ALTES
MUSEUM IS LOOKS LIKEA TEMPLE.IT'S AN ART MUSEUM, BUT I
HAVEN'T EVENVISITED IT YET. THE CATHEDRALIS SOMETHING
AMAZING: IT'S THE “BERLINERDOM”. IT'S BAROQUE STYLE,
BUILT IN XVIII CENTURY.FROM THISPLACE,YOU CAN SEE THE
SPREE, THEBERLIN'S RIVER, AND NEARTHERE'SA FOUNTAIN OF
THE GOD OF THE SEA: POSEIDON (GREEKMYTHOLOGYAGAIN).

16. FIRST MONTH ESSAY
THE FIRST MONTH HEREIN FINLAND HAS BEENREALLYNICE,I’VE
BEENABLE TO GO TO TWO NEAR CITIESAND I REALLYLIKEDTHEM
SO MUCH. THETHIRD WEEKENDWE HAVE BEEN TO VIERUMAKI
WITH VILMA’S FATHER AND HIS FRIENDS,AND WE HADSO MUCH
FUN,WE HAVE BEENIN A REALLYBIG ‘’VILLAGE’’WHERE YOU COULD
DO A LOTOF SPORTS,WE HAVE BEENABLE TOGO TOTHE GYM,TO
PLAY TENNISAND EVENTO A FLOWPARK! IN THE MEANWHILEWE
WERE GETTING CLOSERTO THEMIGRANTS WHO WENT TOOUR
SCHOOL AND WE ALSO WENT TO PLAYBOWLING. THE FOURTH
WEEKENDI’VE BEENTO LOPPIWITH FEDERICAAND SUSANNA’S
FAMILY IN THEIRSUMMER COTTAGE,WEWENT TO FISH SOME
CRABS IN THE LAKEAND TO TAKE MUSHROOMS IN THEFORESTS

17. SECOND MONTH ESSAY
THE SECOND MONTH IN HELSINKI HAS BEEN REALLY NICE, IN THE
AUTUMN BREAK (WHICH IS AN ENTIRE WEEK OF HOLIDAY) WE
HAVE BEEN TO STOCHOLM,IN SWEDEN,FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AND
I’VE LOVED IT. THE CITY WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH A LOT OF COLORFUL
HOUSES AND PEOPLE IN THE STREETS DOING SHOPPING. FROM MY
POINT OF VIEW STOCHOLM IS LIKE A ‘’BIGGER HELSINKI’’ (THAT’S
ALSO WHAT FINNISH PEOPLE SAY),FULL OF FORESTS AND GREEN
PARKS. WHILE WE WERE IN STOCHOLM WE HAVE ALSO VISITED
ABBA MUSEUM AND JUNIBACKEN,A MUSEUM ABOUT A VERY
FAMOUS SWEDISH WRITER (ASTRID LINDGREN) OF FICTION AND
SCREENPLAYS,BUT SHE’S BEST KNOWN AS CHILDRENS’ BOOK
SERIES WRITER, SUCH AS PIPPI LONGSTOCKING OR THE SIX
BULLERBY CHILDREN,AND I’VE LOVED THEM BOTH. WE HAVE ALSO
BEEN IN SCHOOL BAKING CAKES WITH SOME REFUGEES

18. THIRD MONTH ESSAY
THIS LAST MONTH IN HELSINKI HAS PROBABLY BEEN THE
BEST ONE, IN THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER MY FAMILY
CAME TO VISIT AND WE WENT TO SEE SOME MUSEUMS IN
HELSINKI SUCH AS THE ATHENEUM,THE NATIONAL FINNISH
MUSEUM AND KIASMA AND WE ALSO WENT TO A 4D CINEMA
THAT SHOWED A VIDEO OF ALL THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE IN
HELSINKI AND THE CITIES NEARBY. WHEN MY FAMILY
LEFT,FEDERICA’S FAMILY CAME TO VISIT HER AND WE ALL
WENT TO TALLINN IN ESTONIA TO VISIT THE OLD TOWN.
WE’VE ALSO BEEN TO PLAY AN ‘’HORROR’’ MINI GOLF AND IT
WAS VERY SCARY BUT FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME. THE LAST
WEEK WE HAVE BEEN THE THEATER TO SEE A SHOW ABOUT
REFUGEES AND WE WENT ALSO THE SEE AN ICE HOCKEY
MATCH WHICH I LOVED! WE’VE ALSO BEEN TO RUSH
TRAMPOLINE PARK AND HAD SO MUCH FUN