The document summarizes experiences that students had in Catania, Italy thanks to funding from the European Union. They learned about typical Sicilian dishes at a cooking school in Catania. They also visited the Etna Volcano Museum and climbed Mount Etna, where they felt the earth was still warm from its most recent eruptions in 2002 and 2003. The students expressed gratitude to the EU for providing opportunities to learn about Italian and French culture and language, and for a science experiment where they tried to turn milk into organic plastic.