Thank you all for this wonderful year of exchange between Capirola and GKC! Stay in contact!

From all of us to all of you:  Merry Christmas!
GOD JUL!
... and a Happy New Year 2014!
GOTT NYTT ÅR!

Italian Music

The music in Italy is not very different from Sweden, they listen to similar music that we listen to. They also listen to a lot of Swedish music like Avicii and Swedish House Mafia, We have noticed that many Italians like Lana del Ray but in Sweden there aren’t so many who listen to her. Both in Sweden and in Italy we listen to Spotify a lot and we like to share our playlists and music to our friends. When we were in the club the first night in Italy we didn’t recognize any songs but then in the end there were the songs we knew and listened to in Sweden.

Link to Italian music. Enjoy it! http://www.italiamia.com/music.php#.Uqmrb_TuIsY

Italian Fashion

They say that Italy is a fashion country and I agree with it. When I was in Milan, Brescia and Verona I saw a lot of shop windows with fantastic fashion outfits. I liked those clothes very much!
Certain clothes were more expensive than in Sweden but most of the items cost more or less like in Sweden.

In our school we can dress like we want, but we noticed that girls in Capirola had some restrictions in the way they dress. In our free time we generally dress more carefully than the Italians. In the evenings we saw that the Italian guys dress in a very smart way.

                                           Nicolo, Matteo, Paolo, Giuseppe, Daniele, Federico

Italian TV Channels and Media

The first television program in Italy started on 3 January 1954. The channel was called RAI and later   another channel was started called RAI Due and RAI Tre. The RAI channels and it is the most watched tv channels in Italy. In the beginning RAI only transmitted educational programs without commercials. But now the channels transmit movies, news and entertainment. In Italy there is also MTV in Italian language. Mediaset’s blend of politics and media has often made headlines at home and abroad, with concerns expressed over the concentration of media ownership in the hands of one man - former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Written by Amanda Bard

Living in Leno…

gives you a good feeling: it is a small town with lots of things to do, compared to our  hometown Gnosjö. Summer days are hot and long, in the nights you can take walks with friends, eating an ice cream or go to pubs and hang out with people you maybe don’t even know. But they will be friendly to you anyway!
Capirola, the school in Leno, is a little bit different from GKC. School begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 13:00 or 14:00 p.m. When the pupils arrive at school they must stick a personal card into a machine and register, so the teachers know that they are in school. During breaks pupils are not allowed to leave the school area until lessons have finished for the day. The classrooms are very big and there are around 2000 pupils. They don’t use so much technology as we do, like laptops, but they rather take notes by hand. The teachers seem to be very close to their students, and they give the pupils all the help they need. I think, however, that the teachers are not as close to their students as teachers are in our school. The students don’t have so many subjects in school, and their breaks are just 5 minutes between the lessons. 

                                                                           A view of Capirola's schoolyard

Written by Arjanita Hyseni