Day 1- Friday

- Spanish welcome: we were welcomed by Mrs Garrido, Spanish teacher. Our Italian Erasmus colleagues showed us a presentation about Salento: the food, the tradition, the beaches... We visited some classes and met new people. 

- From 10:40 to 12:30 we visited the centre of Lecce: Piazza Sant'Oronzo,Duomo,Santa Croce...We had a nice walk and ate some “gelato”.

- After lunch we went to a shopping center and bought some new clothes. Then, we ate pizza for dinner. Finally, we went to The Space where we played table football and darts with some new italian friends. Overall, we had a very good time. 

-Other students instead of going to the shopping center, they went out in San Donaci, or they spent time with the italian family.

Day 2- Saturday

Today we woke up at half past six. We had breakfast and then we met at “LICEO VIRGILIO REDI”. They showed  us their high school, it was beautiful and there was a big central patio full of trees and flowers. The facilites were very clean and it was all very well organized. The teachers and students were so nice and cheerful. 

After that we went to a huge park. We walked around and saw the vegetation. We played with the swings and we did some exercise. 

At lunch time we went to a pizza laboratory. There a professional pizza cooker taught us how to make italian pizza. We ate them and had a great time.

Day 3- Sunday

Sunday with the family

-Miriam Castro, Sergio, Lucia, Alvaro are on the beach of Porto Cesareo and will spend the morning there. They eat at Sofia's house and go back to the beach to take a bath and play volleyball.

-Mayte and Miriam are having breakfast with their family in a bar called Savina. They eat together at Ludovica's house and go to Torre Lapilli beach.

-Ainara is having breakfast with her family in a cafeteria called Jérôme. He has eaten with the family and then he has seen a movie with Gloria.

-Julieta is at home. In the afternoon he goes shopping with his family.

-Alicia is at home and has gone to a family meal.

-Laila has taken the car and spent the morning in Otranto, has eaten with the family and has returned home.

-At 7:30 p.m. we all met at Giulia's house. We danced, sang and played juices. We had a great time!!

Day 4- Monday 

-We had started the week with a rather intense day.

-First in the morning we met at the door of the institute to take a bus in the direction of Cutrofiano, where we were going to realize many activities during the morning.

First we had gone to a ceramic factory, where we had been able to see how ceramic products are manufactured from the first step to their packaging. 

After that we went to another place where they also make ceramic products but with more modern methods such as 3D printing and laser. They had also offered us an appetiser with typical Italian dishes.

-Then we had been to a ceramic museum, where they had explained us the history of the ceramic products during the years.

To rest and be able to eat, we went to the fossil park. We made a stop to eat the lunch that our families had prepared for us and then we visited the fossil remains found on the park floor. A perfect place to be in contact with nature.

-Finally, we had visited the Almazara, where we have been able to see how oil was obtained during the XVIII and XIX centuries.

-When we went back to Lecce to return home, we had time to rest a little but at 19:30 we had met to watch a soccer game in Surbo, a town where some Italian colleagues live. We had a great time and we all had dinner together.

It has been a very good day although helms ended up quite tired.

Day 6- Wednesday

We went to Porto Cesareo, a lovely beach. There, we went to La Pillo, an old fortress. After that we cleaned the beach, we picked up rubbish like plastic bottles, cigarettes, plastic bags etc. We then had a walk on the beach and we had lunch. 

In the afternoon, we went to La Casina Spezzaferri, an old vineyard that has been making wine since 1780. We walked through the vineyards and learned new things about them. Then, we tried a series of tradicional products such as wine, cheese, olive oil,  jam… We also listened to typical italian music and we tried dancing it. When we finished, we returned to Lecce and we went to a cafe  and ate typical desserts. 

-We all went home and rested after this long day

DAY 10- SUNDAY

- In the morning depends of the family and the distance between the house and the train station, some people wake up at nine o'clock or 9:15, we breakfast and them we go to the train station, we arrived there at half past eleven because we had to took the train at 12:17. We cryed a lot because we had to say goodbye of our italian friends.

-We took the train and we ate some tipical itlaian biscuits than the teachers gave our. After we stay un the train for two hours and we spend a very good time. We arrived to other station, we ate our food but some people don't had food so the teachers bought It for them. We took another train to the airport of Bari.

-When we were in the airport we go to facture our suitecase, some people pass the limits of the weight, the suite case more heavy weight 24kg!!. After we go to revise our hand equipaje, no pone had any problem.

- Before we took the airplane some people ate crepes or an icecream and finally we went to the file for enter in the airplane. We were in the air plane and some people was watching films and series,sleeping,reading and talking with their accompanying. Then the plane landed in Sevilla and we go out of the airport to take a bus for go to Córdoba, we stayed in the bus around two hours. Our families are waiting for us in the parking of the Asomadilla and when we arrived it was a very nice moment to see everyone with their parents. Finally everyone went home since the next morning they had to go to class.