Monday 1^st February 2016

It's 9 in the morning and while I'm living a new, but common, school day, my classmates are probably beginning their first lesson of their linguistic Stage in Dublin.

I much regret not being with them because I wasted an opportunity to improve my English, to visit a city that I have never been to in my life, to make different growing experiences with my classmates and also to know new people or new friends.

Luckily, we are only five in the classroom right now so during this week we will take forward with school tests and have more time to review the subjects even if the teachers who were supposed to help us in revising the program during these days are busy in overseeing other classes.

In spite of this, I envy the rest of my class that has the opportunity to come in contact with a new culture, far and different from our own, from which we have many things to learn and vice versa. They are guests of Irish families so they will practice in speaking English all day long and that's difficult of course, but it's also a big luck! I wish I were with them!

Until a few years ago I attended an English afternoon course at the Kiddy Club in Cervignano and every summer the teacher took the kids to study in an English or in an Irish school for two weeks, an experience similar to the linguistic Stage my classmates are doing.

During the lesson at the Kiddy we always talked about the Trinity College and the beautiful city of Belfast, and when I learned that my classmates would also visited these one during the Stage I envied them even more!

The students of the fifth year which have been in Dublin last year told me that the Irish teachers submit the guys to some tests to verify their level of English and I hope I also can perform similar tests to know how much is worth my English in English-speaking countries and how much I have to improve myself.

Since I started the course at the Kiddy Club, at the age of five years, the Anglo-Saxon countries have always intrigued me a lot, especially from a cultural point of view and luckily, even though I lost this opportunity, my parents will allow me to study two weeks in London this summer or the next one to be able to prepare me for college. Since I've been in high school I always wanted to attend a university in English-speaking countries and I hope I will realize this dream.

I hope my classmates will spend an interesting week and I can not wait them to come back to get me telling all the experiences they will live, all the places they will visit and all the friends they will make in Dublin too.