我在8.25日到达中国，北京，从那一刻开始，我的人生改变了。
      北京和我的意大利家乡Chioggia完全不一样，在那里，有多东西，许多人都会说中文和英语。在北京我们去了美丽的长城。多么棒的经历啊，可惜的是那里很热。结束北京之行后，到了离开的时刻了，我要和我的新的意大利朋友说再见了，然后去一个我完全陌生的地方，因为这是我第一次到中国。
      我们坐火车去了上海。在火车上很有乐趣，我第一次和Yannick（瑞士男孩）Apolline（法国女孩），Fee（德国女孩），Mayuko（日本女孩）和Nathaniel（德国男孩）他们说了话。他们是与我一同经历这次旅程的人，不幸的是，Apolline，那个法国女孩，一个月前离开中国回了法国！
      AFS交流项目中没有一个人是和我在一所学校的，事实上，在火车上我问了他们有没有人是和我在甘泉外国语中学就读的？每个人都说不，他们的学校名字和我的不一样。一个人孤独的在学校的滋味真的，真的很糟糕，我有时候感到很孤单，我的同班同学很害羞，有些甚至没有和我说过“hello”。反而一直用中文说着我。
      第一次去AFS在南京路的官方办公室的时候，志愿者给我们解释了很多事情，但实际上我当时太激动以至于没有理解他们在说些什么，然后我们见了我们的住家。最好玩是事情是我的家庭进了办公室，志愿者对Yannick说“hey这就是你的家庭！”然后他开始用中文和他们说话，但是我的家庭有些迷茫，他们一直和志愿者说着中文！然后我了解到他们是我的家庭！我的妈妈拥抱了我，我很不知所措，但是我的爸爸只是支支吾。我的妹妹并没有和他们一起去办公室，我在家里见到了她，她看了我，说了“哦，hi！”然后就走了。
      上学的第一天很特别，我完全不知道他们在说什么。结束课程之后，我和班级里的所有人去了卡拉ok，那太无聊了，我觉得很迷茫，真的很迷茫。一开始，中文的课程对我来说实在是太难了，有些时候我想过不如回到我那意大利无聊的家乡吧，但是我很高兴我找到了许多很棒的人一直在这几个月中帮助我，我结交了许多朋友。我的中文老师真是我一生中遇过最好的人，我和她一起决定了让我转到我们学校的留学生部，现在我在那里，上着最基础的中文课。在留学生部，只有日本的同学，这就是为什么我现在会说一点点日语。
      现在日子一天天变得习惯起来，我现在可以说一些中文，然后明年我会转到中国学生的课程中去，我只会回到留学生部上HSK课。我真的很想上中文的课，也许我还会去上日语课！
      除了我的住家，其他一切的都开始好起来了，一开始的几天里我们的交流很有困难，也许是因为他们不会说英语，而用中文表达我的意思并不是件简单的事情。有些时候会产生误解，但现在一切都ok了，他们还给了我两份圣诞节礼物，在我的国家最重要的节日，我很高兴他们是我的住家，我的爸爸很搞笑，很喜欢笑，他还经常帮助我的写作。我也很喜欢和我的妹妹一起聊天。我的妈妈是一个很棒的人，她一直尝试教我一些东西。我认为我在中国的日子就是这样，一些时候很棒，一些时候很糟糕，但是每天我都很庆幸我来了这里，当我回到意大利，我会建议大家都来参加这样的活动，这能帮助你成长。
      谢谢你，AFS，让这一起都变成了可能。

I arrived in China the 25th of August,in Beijing,and from that moment my life changed.
Beijing is so different from my home town, Chioggia, in Italy. There ,there were lots of things, lots of peolpe and all of them spoke in english and chinese.
In Beijing we went to the beautiful great wall. What amazing experience, but unfortunately was very hot.

Finished the days in Beijing, arrived the moment to leave,to say goodbye to all my new italian friends and travel to a place that I really didn't know, because this, for me,is the first time in China.

We went to Shanghai by train.
In train I had lots of fun and I spoke for the first time with: Yannick(the Switzerland boy) Apolline(the french girl), Fee(the german girl), Mayuko(the japanese girl) and Nathaniel(the one german boy) they are the guys who are with me during this experience;unfortunately Apolline, the french girl ,one month ago left China to return back in France!

No one of the AFS students are in the same school as me: in fact on the train I began to ask them "who is with me in Ganquan foreigner languages middle school?"And everybody said "no, our school's name is different"!

Be alone at school was really, really awful, almost because sometimes I felt quite lonely, my classmates were shy and some of them even didn't say "hello" to me, but they only spoke in chinese about me.

The first time in the in AFS local office( wich is located in Nanjin road, the biggest and amazing road in Shanghai and maybe in all China) our volunteers explained us lots of things, but honestly I was to exicted to understand what they were saying, and finished we met our hostfamily.

The funniest thing is that my family is entered in the local center and the volunteers said to a boy; Yannick,,"Hey go, they are your family!" And he began to talk a lot with them in chinese; but my family were quite lost; and they continued to say somenthing in chinese to the volunteers!Then I understood that they were my family!
My hostmother hugged me and I didn' t know what to do, but my hostfather only said .. Uhm, ah....

My hostsister were not with them when they went to the local office, I met her when we were at home; she looked at ,me and said "oh hi" and she went away.

The first day of school was very particular:I didn't understand what they were speaking about and, finished lessons we went togheter,with all my classmates, to the karaoke, it was so borig and I felt lost, absolutely lost.
Lessons in my chinese class were really too difficult for me at the beginng and in some moments I thought that it was better to leave China and return back in my boring city in Italy, but I am so glad that I found lots of amazing persons who helped me al lot during all these months. I met lots of friendsand in particular one.

Mychinese teacher is really on the best persons I ever met in all m y life.With her we decided that it was better for me to change school and go to the foreigner departement of my school.

Now I there, wer only have lessons of very basilar chinese.
In the foreigner department of my school there are only japanese students, that' s why now I can speak really a little of japanese.

Now day by day things are going to be stable,and I can speak a little of chinese ,then next year I will go to the local school as a normal chinese student, I will return back in the foreigner department only for the HSK lessons!

I really want to go to the chinese class, maybe I will go in a class that study japanese!
Instead with my family everything is going better, in nthe firts times we had some problems maybe also beacuse they can not speak english and explain my feelings in chinese was not so easy.

Sometimes we had incomprensions, but everything is relly OK they also gave me two presents for Christmas, the most important Holiday in my country. I am so happy now that they are my family, my hostfather is so funny he really loves to laugh and he helps me a lot with writing.

I also like my hostsister and to chat with her.
My hostmother is a really good person who tries everytime to teach me somenthinng.
I think that my life in china is like this, some moments everything is amazing, other everything is awful, but everyday I am so happy that I decided to do this experinece.
I want to suggest to every body when I go back to Italy to do somenthing like this, becuse it helps you to grew up.

Thank you AFS to gave me this possibility.