Building Bridges Using the Five Senses

Malta has a special character in its landscape and I liked it very much.

Francesca N.

LICEO CARDUCCI:
IMPRESSIONS OF MALTA THROUGH THE FIVE SENSES

(Gloria and Mrs. Maccarone took the pictures)

 

Malta: what a wonderful island! It is full of colours and beautiful sights.

Benedetta

 

 

 The Maltese people are very friendly and open minded : they are able to accept diferent traditions.

Teresa

 

In Malta they drive on the left side of the road, as they do in England: I did not expect it at all!

Francesca N.

 

Thanks to the San Andrea's team, we went through all that a human being can see of Malta in the space of three days, and at the same time we could experience a close and authentic relationship with a group of local inhabitants and, through them, have a disclosure to the innermost Maltese culture we wouldn't have had otherwise.

 

As soon as we arrived in Malta we were surprised to hear many Italian words while the Maltese were speaking.

Alice

During our association with them, we were able to see in our hosts a dynamic synthesis between a Mediterranean human warmth, an easy, vivid, (sometimes even jocularly aggressive, much along our own Italian lines) communication style, and a methodical organization and a precise sense of rules, usually considered more in tune with a northern spirit. A successful hybridization seems to have inspired the language, the educational system, and perhaps the administration procedures as well.

At San Andrea School teachers and pupils worked very hard to organize a party for us, with decorations, dances and welcome speeches.

Francesca G.

The cooking workshop in San Andrea School was very interesting and it was fun to taste all the different dishes.

Vittoria

The climax of our visit has certainly been the Cooking Workshop in San Andrea's Home Economics Lab. I cannot help mentioning that since our arrival at the school we had been surrounded by a sort of level-headed enthousiasm shared by teachers and pupils alike, so that we felt somehow that the school was making room for us in their midst; as for the welcome ceremony, it was simply moving.

 

I was surprised during our visit to San Andrea School: it is very big and the pupils have a different kind of lessons than in our school. They even have Cooking as a subject.

Erika

The atmosphere was decidedly the right one for our cooking teams to get down to business on their recipes, while the teachers supervised and now and then made up for the pupils' inexperience; about the results, well, since the eatng is the proof of the pudding, we ate it with relish, didn't we?

Preparing a meal, sharing it with others, getting to know each other through the respective cooking traditions: it is difficult for me to imagine an older ritual than this basic one in all the history of mankind. Thanks to all the participants!

Anna

How strange that we had to travel to Malta to know each other better than before!

Caterina.