Scout in class

Good morning !

More than a month ago, Giulia, a friend of mine, asked me if I wanted to be involved in something interesting. Her mum works as a teacher in an elementary school, not far from where we live. 

This year they're working on a project where the children discover more about community, help, friendship and many other topics that could easily be connected with scoutism. 

I can't precisely remember the day, but in March our leader Luca, Giulia and I visited the class and met the children. Throughout the year they read the ''Jungle Book'' by Kipling, on which the activities for youngest scout are based. They already knew names, stories, traditions and many other things, it was a pleasure to work with them. On this first meeting they welcomed us singing ''Strade di Coraggio'', a song written for the national event we had last year, and ,while singing, they were holding a draw of the official logo. We than taught them a couple of songs for scout of their age and we spoke a little bit, discovering what they thought about scoutism and we answered their questions. 

This morning we had the second and last meeting: when we arrived they were still in the gym, doing activities connected with music. After that, we taught them another song and than we moved the activities outside. We played a game outside and they has do much fun ! When it came the time to say goodbye, in order to thank us, the children started singing ''Up'' by Olly Murs and Demi Lovato and they also danced !

After this ''last goodbye'' I felt emotional: it was hard not to cry a little bit but I managed to hold back the tears. Those 9 kids were so sweet, I really do hope the best for them.

This is it for today. This afternoon I'm going to cut my hair (rare event...for which I'm so so so nervous) and tonight I'll probably go to the cinema, because I won free tickets ahah 

Have a nice weekend !

Fede

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@Update 4 - May and June, many events plus exams

Good morning, or as they say in Australia ''G'day !''

I'm not in Australia right now, just saying ! 

More than a month has passed since when I published something. 

May is one of the busiest month of my year; the lessons' end coincides with the medieval festival in my city (that we won this year, for the 3rd consecutive time) and many other local events. For example, this weekend there's going to be ''Cantine Aperte'' (Open Wineries): you pay something like 10euros for the transport, usually a small bus, so that you're completely sure that the driver (who's not one of your friends) won't surely get drunk. Than, when you arrive, you need to pay 5euro for the glass of the even, that you can refill as many times as you please, throughout the day. Unluckily, this same weekend, there's going to be the election of the new region's president. I was selected to work at the polling station, where I'll spend Saturday afternoon and the whole Sunday...obviously sober ahah.

At the beginning of June there's the first part of the summer exam session, than every school's theater goups is going to performa  certain play, every sports club will perform a final exhibition and so on. I'll try to take part to as many events as possible, but in the meantime, I'll have to study. 

There are so many things to write about that I lost count and that I didn't really wanted to describe that much. I preferred to live the moment, enjoy the experience and not constantly think about pictures to upload on the blog to show you, and other things. I realized that I enjoy writing in order to create a sort of journal, something that I'll update whenever I have something that is truly worth describing. 

I said everything and nothing in this post, hopefully I'll soon update, but I'm not sure. Living summer as it comes :) Have a nice weekend !

Fede

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