Michael - Exchange Student
"The future is and should be bright, but, like our brief four years in high school, what makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever, what makes it precious is that it ends"
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Monday, May 30, 2016
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
"Every Story Has An End, But In Life Every Ending Is Just A New Beginning"
I've always known this year was gonna pass by fast, I've always know how the time flies, or I thought I did. Until you live it you don't fully understand it. If I think about it, it seems like yesterday, when I left my family and friends, when I took that plane, when my adventure started. And yet I'm here, almost 10 months after, and I can't believe it. Over this time I lived so many adventures, visited so many places, and changed so much. I don't know how I feel about leaving. It's weird. I'm happy and yet sad. I can't wait to see my family, my friends, everyone, I can't wait to go back to my life. But at the same time it just doesn't feel right to leave all this. This place, that 301 days ago was totally unknown, a little scary, and that didn't mean anything for me, well, today I call that place home. I now have to leave the people who welcome me in their house and treated my as a son, as a brother. What will I even say to them, I don't know. I'm proud of myself, for having the courage of doing all this, for achieving so many goals, and realising a dream. The last days of school have been really emotional and I wanna say thank you to all my friends, who helped me over this year. I now have a couple of
days off, to rest, and tomorrow I might start packing. Saturday morning there is gonna be the graduation ceremony, and at night we'll have a graduation/goodbye party for me here at the house. Sunday I'll probably finish packing and getting my stuff ready, and my plane leaves Monday morning. The project I said I was working on it's a video about my exchange year. It's pretty much done, I just wanna add some pictures from the graduation and I'll post it on Sunday.

Michael
Friday, May 20, 2016
Wind Ensemble & Jazz Band Concerts & Contests
Michael
CCI Exchange Students Meeting & Plans for Next Posts
Here are some picture of the exchange students meeting we had about two weeks ago. It was our last official one. They're having a barbecue this Sunday but I have plans with my host family so I won't be able to make it. Likely tonight I'll publish the next post about the last concerts and contests we took part of :)
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Prom!!!
Come vi avevo detto era ieri, sabato. Era in un hotel molto carino. Ci sono andati con alcuni amici e ovviamente la mia date, dopo essere andati a mangiare insieme. Abbiamo ballato, ovviamente, e ci siamo divertiti molto. Volevo solo dire grazie a tutti gli amici con cui ci sono andato, che hanno reso questo un ricordo indimenticabile. Grazie! Ecco alcune foto :)
Michael
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Senior Breakfast & Capping Ceremony :)
This morning I went to Senior Breakfast, a meeting for all the seniors and their parents where we have breakfast together and the Capping Ceremony takes place. I chose my host mother to cap me and the paragraph above is what I wrote and what was read during the ceremony. In the ceremony they call your name and you go up on stage with the person you chose and while a counsellor reads your Capping Statement, this person put the cap on your head. It's a symbolic action: you choose special person who helped you through high school to put the cap on you, which stands for maturity, and symbolise the end of your high school career. The day of graduation you will wear that cap and on stage by yourself where you will be given your diploma. It was a really nice experience, definitely a important event in my american life. As always, here are some picture. I'll write soon to talk about Prom :)
"La persona che ho scelto per pormi il cappello della maturità è la mia madre ospitante, Helen Pinto, perchè anche se non siamo davvero parenti, è di famiglia per me. C'è sempre stata quando ne avevo bisogno e mi ha aiutato ad affrontare ogni difficoltà. È una grande persona, di buon cuore, e, anche se sono a migliaia di chilometri dal mio paese, mi può far sempre sentire a casa. Grazie per tutto quello che hai fatto e per essere sempre al mio fianco"
Michael
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