Report on studying in Italy

by Charlie O'Brien 9D

My Timetable

This is my timetable that repeats every week and yes there is school on Saturday - on a Monday and Wednesday I have two extra periods.

Lunchtimes: during lunchtimes I will go with classmates to either the pizzeria or the McDonald's across the road.

Art Subjects

Storia dell'arte: 

Art history, at the moment  in art history we are studying the history of architecture and how it has developed. I don't really do the work in this class because it's all in Italian and the teacher has no interest in helping me!

Plastiche:

It translates to plastic art but it is working around clay. In this subject we are sculpting different parts of famous statues. This is my hand that I'm attempting but it's not finished yet. After I have finished this I will move on to sculpting the statue of David's eye.

Art:

In are we are studding Vermeer and statues. This is my favourite subject. The teacher we have is really awesome, she brings us food and enjoys talking to us unlike other teachers at the school. The drawing I'm working on at the moment is one of Vermeer's fruit still life paintings, I am using colour pencil and it's taking me forever....

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Technical drawing:

This subject for me is the most confusing, it's all about shapes and drawing them up with tools. I can't understand the teacher because she speaks Italian but it slowly is beginning to make sense.

This is folder that I take to school everyday it cost me $300 for all the materials needed. All my other subject are the usual except religion (in my first lesson he tried to convince us that baby's come from the sky.) At the school we also have art lectures and we get taken through the schools gallery.