There will never be enough words to describe this amazing experience. When Daryoosh and the Alumni said “the others will not understand how you feel even if you will try to explain it to them” I didn’t believe them, but now I know what they meant. It’s really difficult to speak about this experience to the ones that have not lived it. I would like to share my feelings with my friends but that’s quite impossible because I felt such strong feelings that are impossible to describe. I spent 2 fantastic weeks with over 60 students from all over the world. Or better, at the beginning they were 60 students but now they are friends! I had never been to a place where people of so many different cultures could gather. I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to take part to the WSF07. I’ve learned so many things!! First of all, I must be sincere, I had some prejudices against certain cultures; it’s with great pleasure that I can say that now I don’t have any prejudice any more. The Forum helped me a lot in this. Staying in contact with people from all over the world was amazing, it was a great opportunity to open up my mind and enrich my culture. In addition the Forum was in Japan; I have always dreamed of going to Japan. In this way I got in touch with the Japanese culture and tried the Japanese food. Eating with chopstick was difficult at the beginning but then it was easier and now I really miss them! Food was also the topic of our group discussions. The topic of my group was “food mobility and availability”; I didn’t know anything about this topic before the Forum. Anyway after some researches I gathered up lots of information. Thank also to the other group presentations I know that we can really do something to make the world a better place. Anyway we can’t do it alone, the group is really important to achieve a goal. That’s another thing I have learned from the WS: alone we can’t do almost anything, but if everyone does just a little thing we can make the difference. It could sound strange but I really feel that something has changed in my life. I’m really proud of this because I know that it has changed in better. I will never forget the WS, I will never forget the people I met there, I will try to keep in contact with as many people as possible and I will try to make the things I have learned come true.

SILVIA DE MARCHI CL. 5^AL

2 weeks, 5 continents, 20 nations and more than 60 students, that is for me the World School Forum, it is a meeting as well as an opportunity for many students to compare their lives and culture. It is a moment when differences in habits, costumes, traditions, uses, prejudices and distrusts are far away. It is an union based on the dialogue, because everybody tries to speak and to understand the others. During these two weeks I learnt to understand and to appreciate advantage from differences instead of criticising them. I learnt also how to stay and live with other people and above all I made many new friendships and I really hope to keep in touch with all these new friends and to see them again in the future. The hardest moment was the last day when the World School Forum finished and when I had to sat goodbye to all my friends, because the idea of coming back to everyday life and not to see all of them for a long time was terrible. It undoubtedly was an experience that I will never forget and that probably has changed my life, too. Now I feel to be more open-minded. I would suggest everybody should join the World School Forum if they had the opportunity; it is a wonderful experience that teaches a lot about foreign cultures and that could change many aspect of one’s own life.

ANDREA PAPALEO CL. 5^AL

Alessia Graziani CL. 5^ AL