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February 22-28, 2018 Dubbo Photo News
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Buona esperienza for Grace B YVETTE By YVETTE AU A UBUSSO ON-FOLEY AUBUSSON-FOLEY IIF F it’s it’s possible it posssible to smile in IItalian, It ta allian, Gr race Gower’s doing Grace iit t. it. T e 17-year-old Th 17-yyear-old Year 11 The sst tud u ent fr rom Dubbo returned student from to A to ustrallian on January 14 Australian a af f tteer spen nding a year in Italy after spending on yyouth on outh eexchange through S So out uth Dubbo Dub bbo Rotary. South S e can Sh n’t recommend the She can’t eex xpe periencce highly enough experience a an nd looks forward to returnand iin ng to Ital ly in the future. ing Italy Starting g her adventure on Starting Sa S ard r inia Island I in a town Sardinia cca all l ed Iglesias, Igleesias, Grace got to called eex xplore a land in the heart explore of tthe of h Tyr he rhenian Sea, spend Tyrrhenian ttime tim ti ime in Ita aly and see the rest Italy off Europe. o Europee. “I trav velled around Eutravelled rro ope p wit th Rotary and other rope with sstudents st u ents who were also on ud yyo outh exchange e youth in Europe. I went went to t Rome with my ho h ost fam mily as well,” she host family ttold to old Du ubbo Photo News. Dubbo S Sc ho ool life was probably School h er big ggest surprise. her biggest “Thee students stay in tthe th he sa me classroom and same it t ’s th it’s thee teachers who m mo vee around. Then I move wentt to a language scho ool where they school stu died French, Engstudied lish h and Spanish. The ey did physics and They all that. All in Italian. Twe elve subjects.” Twelve A ttypical school day start ted at 8.20am for started Gra ace and ended at Grace 1.3 30. 1.30. ““We’d go home and ha ave a big lunch – my have Non nna would cook us Nonna a bi b ig lu llunch nch every day after big ssc ch ho ool, th hen we’d just go out school, then in tthe in he af fternoon. The food afternoon. w as ve ery good.” was very Grac ce stayed with three Grace d di fferent families in the different yyear. ye ar.. The first was for o on ne-an nd-a-half months, one-and-a-half a an nd herr host parents had and ttheir th thei hei e r ow wn restaurant and own ssh he ha h da an older ‘brother’ she had bu b ut he h w as at uni. but was Grace Gower wears dozens of memento pins she collected from other youth exchange students from all over the world. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS
“I was with my second family for seven months. I have a little brother there who is 13 and my host parents. I became very close to them, they were like my family. We all lived in the one apartment. I had my grandma – Nonna – and grandpa living downstairs and my uncle and little cousins as well. It was like a real typical Italian family, all living together, and we’d all have lunch together. “I was with my third family for the rest of my year. I had a twin brother and sister – they’re 18 – and my host parents.” Staying in touch with family back home was easy. “It is easier these days being away, because you have Facetime or Messenger. I probably spoke to family back home in Australia once a month. I find it harder now to contact Italy because I’m always at school, at work or dancing, but over there I was doing whatever I wanted to do. “I didn’t get as homesick as I thought I would. Probably Christmas and birthdays is when it really hits you, but other than that you’re just living life. “I just photoshopped myself into family photos! And I do it now when I see photos of my family or class in Italy. My class is in Spain at the moment, so I just photoshopped myself into one of the group photos in Madrid.”
Rotary Youth Exchange Info Night ROTARY is currently finalising details for an information night in March for students interested in going on youth exchange. Even if it’s in a few year’s time, all are welcome to find out what’s involved. “It takes quite a long time to get prepared, so the younger you are when finding out about it, the better,” Grace suggested. For more information contact Steve Gower on 0438 842 366.
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IN BRIEF
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