Padova -Dickinson

A new semester has begun and I welcome the new "e-tivities"!

Our first task is to write our impressions about the first Skype exchange with the Dickinson's students! Well, the beginning has been so embarassing... My Ugo boy (please call me Ugo and not Hugo :p!) is a so very American 18 years old guy that I was really surprised! How could it be that all the stereotypes I have in my mind are mixed in just one person?! His way of speaking, his clothes, his face, his way of moving, everything!! I was so shocked that it took me a couple of minutes to say something more "clever" than "Hello... ehm.... ciao?"! By the way, I was lucky enough that the other girl who was going to talk with us did not simply stay there with the microphone without saying nothing!

After this dreadful beginning things went on better. Ugo seems to be quite a nice guy, we talked a lot about the differences between our and his universities and also about the cities we live in. He has Italian parents and talks very well in Italian!

I think we have been talking for half an hour, maybe more, but I didn't really notice the passing of time! I had great fun and I really appreciated this possibility of talking in English with a native speaker! Maybe next time we will change our American partner, so that we will have the possibility to know the other students too!