Art for inclusion

Hello everyone we are Rebecca and Santiago, two Italian guys who attend IIS Sandro Pertini in Alatri.

In 2019 we decided to participate in the Erasmus project "Art for inclusion's sake" and we hosted young people who came from abroad, more precisely from Turkey.

Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we were unable to travel in 2020 but a week ago, from 14 to 20 November we took our first flight to Spain, Tenerife.

Before arriving we were very anxious, we could not wait to see the families that would host us! We had a very good time, we felt as if we were staying at our home.

It was a very intense week, we faced different activities both at school and outside, we visited the Teide, Santa Cruz and on the last day, perhaps the most fun for us kids, we did some water sports such as canoeing, surfing, diving and the boat ride.

We became aware of another vision of life. We have seen the differences between our country and theirs. We realized that they are very open-minded people, there were no prejudices and all those other negative things indeed, the Spanish are very welcoming and nice people! When we were at school students who did not participate in the project also approached us to make friends.

We have known people that we will carry forever in our hearts. We can tell you that if you have the opportunity to have this experience, do it, because they are memories that we will carry with us forever and also because beyond the fun it will be very useful for learning the language, in this case English, in a way different than in the books.