What happens in the school?
Hi everybody!!
Summer is over, but Autumn is taking something new and exciting to our school.
We kept contact with the association “Cittadini del Mondo” (citizens of the world), an organization born in Florence in 2004 that helps students from every country who are part of the Erasmus Program (an European exchange program at university level) to meet and create moments of integration between the many cultures and lifestyles now in town.
Where and when this meeting? But for an aperitivo of course! It is a speciality of Italian barrooms and pubs: from 7pm on you can pick and taste appetizers à buffet, paying only for a drink.
The main activity of Cittadini del Mondo consists just of this weekly meetings!
From now on our students too will have the opportunity of taking part to these meetings and to all the activities of Cittadini del Mondo.
Every week a teacher from the school will take them to the “Erasmus Aperitivo” in order to introduce them to the other “citizens of the world”!!
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Eurochocolate Perugia 2009
The festival of chocolate in the birthplace of the famous Baci Perugina!
 Do you like chocolate? Do you have a sweet tooth?
Perugia, the chief town of Umbria, turns out for 10 days in an open air giant confectioner’s shop for all chocolate’s lovers.
There will be an incredible number of flavours from all over the world to be tasted and sculptures of chocolate made by skilful artists to be admired!
Other events: distribution of Baci Perugina, workshops, cooking courses, tastings, parties and a SPA sector as well, dedicated to body care with treatments based on chocolate and cacao!
In brief: a real paradise for all the chocolate’s lovers!
We will go there on the 17th October. Are you coming with us?
The Chianti wine festival: the grape harvest
 When summer is over, grapes ripe, delicious fruits of our region.
During the month of October, grape harvesting month, together with visiting Greve in Chianti and wine testing, you will experience the elation of grape harvesting, equipped with scissors and gloves.
The grape harvest is a ritual that recurs every year. The bunch of grapes is carefully plucked, a manual work considered almost sacred by grape harvesters.
When will grapes be ripe? The moon will tell the last word, the waning moon!
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Events in Florence
FERDINANDO I DE’ MEDICI
Maiestate Tantum –
Medici Chapels Museum 
“Maiestate Tantum” is the exhibition title. It was the motto of Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549-1609), one of the most famous members of the Medici family.
The exhibition shows the most important moment of his life, when he married Cristina di Lorena, from the french royal family. The sumptuous wedding is illustrated by paintings, portraits, coats of arms and the precious dowry that the queen carried to Florence.
 FESTIVAL OF CREATIVITY
15 - 18 October 2009 in Florence
The city of the future, the future of the city
A double meaning title?
In 2050 over 80% of the world population will live in “urbanized contexts”. Therefore the city is the place where creativity becomes innovation, production and development and intends to go over technology, talent and tolerance.
This fifth edition of the festival, dedicated to contemporary projects and languages, presents again the image of Florence and Tuscany as real culture medium of creativity.
It is an event structured in meetings, shows, workshops, informatics nets where, in an open participation context, web and most advanced social networking users meet.
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MUSICA DEI POPOLI 2009
1-31 October
 Do you think music is only classic, pop, rock or jazz?
Then you must visit the Festival “Musica dei Popoli” in Florence during October. You will get in touch with so many musical worlds you never even imagined they exist!
This festival, born in Florence in 1979, is the first Italian exhibition of international ethnic and folk music and one of the most famous of the world. You will discover that the “music from the world” is often hard to label and is sometimes a sheer form of art that includes, together with music, dance, acting and gesture as well.
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