Quality Label

New school year started two months ago and we started a new etwinning project. We worked hard on etwinning newspaper and this blog and we won Quality Label. It is a certification for the quality of the etwinning project.

Anyway we won't close this blog but we will post our school's event or city's event. Thank you to all that followed and still floow us.

Panella-Vallauri Group

SUMMER CAMP: ITALY

In Italy teenagers usually have a summer trip with other teenagers. There are different kinds of camps.

For example Luigi went to a music camp in Sardegna last summer. In that camp all teenagers had the opportunity of taking lessons with famous musicians and doing a concert at the end of the camp.

Also Marco went to a boyscout  camp last summer. In that occasion some teams challenged each other on specific topics such as cooking, agility, running, and so on. The winner team for each skill gained a medal as a prize for its knowledge about that particular topic. It was very amazing!

According to us summer camps can be a very interesting and funny experience for all teenagers, with important educational values too.

                                                                                                                by Luigi   and Marco

Meet Sherrita Duran: gospel music is back in town

On 29th march we went to Siracusa theatre in R.Calabria, to take part in gospel singer Sherrita Duran workshop. We talked about gospel music origins, and after that we sang together several songs belonging to the same genre. There were also other classes  from our school and from other schools as well. It has been a very interesting and exciting experience, because we sang with a very good singer.

Nanotechnology is the future

We think nanotechnology is the most exciting thing that we've read about for years! It will bring us many benefits. In my opinion, using nanotechnology in the energy field is the most important benefit because will have a free supply of energy that isn't damaging to the environment.Benefits already observed from the design of these products are an increased electrical storage capacity, and a decrease in the amount of pollution from the use of energy. Benefits such as these make the investment of capital in the research and development of nanotechnology a top priority. In fact, we live in the southern part of Italy and during year there is the sun. Here it would be really possible to use sunlight as main energetic resource.















Another exciting idea is also thinking that one day planes and cars will use solar energy instead of classic fuel.





















 By Raffaele Putortì, Domenico Violi, Angelo La Rocca, Cristina Chirila, Robert Ilinca

Technology and Gaming

TECHNOLOGY & GAMING

In Italy we use a lot of technology especially mobile phones and ebook, usually each person has at least one cell and the children learn to use them when they are babies. In Italy, the technology is widespread and advanced. As for the games they are also widely used especially by children, young people but also adults. Consoles which are used mainly playstation 3 and xbox 360 and PC and many others. You can also define that in Italy the technology and the games become very easy to employee, the majority of people are always on the phone or the PC.

Danilo: ”I like playing videogames with friends but also alone and I spent hour and hour on it”

Robert :”Instead I use so much my telephone for messaging and playing games like Crandy Crush and QuizDuello.”

A Survey on Students' Dating Habits

This is a report on a survey of students’ dating habits. We gave a questionnaire to 124 students from all three grades of our school.

These are the questions we asked:

1.            Where do you usually meet people your age?

2.            Where do you go on a date?

3.            Would you go out with someone you have met online?

4.             Do you tell the truth about yourself on the first date?

5.             What is your ideal partner like? 

The results were very interesting. Check them out below here!.

From Mark and Luana

Every day is...8th March

Italian school system

Italian school system from etwinning2013

Reggio calabria: a town in the heart of the mediterranean

Reggio calabria: a town in the heart of the mediterranean from etwinning2013

An E-Bike realized in our Laboratories!

An E-Bike realized in our Laboratories!

February 15, 2014, in the Auditorium of the Technical Institute of Technology'' A. Panella - G. Vallauri "of Reggio Calabria. The teacher of Mechanics Courses presented to the public a prototype of an electric bicycle made ​​entirely in the Laboratories of Mechanics, as a result of the project "Building an e-bike." The E-BIKE was assembled using techniques and ergonomic solutions and highly ecological and through a multimedia it was illustrated step-by-step stages of the prototype . Finally, the administrative director Ida Romeo, was visibly excited, she wanted to thank all the authors and implementers of the project E-BIKE.

Mark Joseph Vallejo 

TOURISM IN REGGIO

TOURISM IN REGGIO

Reggio Calabria is one of the most beautiful city in Italy having many places to visit, which are amazing.

Lungomare (Waterfront), the most beautiful kilometer of Italy, full of shores where in the summer months parties and animations are held , it’s possible to have a walk and look at a stunning view, and feel  a refreshing sea breeze.

Il Duomo (The Cathedral), religious font of the city, it imposes stateliness  and imposingness in the eyes of everyone, painted with frescoes and inlaid marbles, restored after the  terrible earthquake in 1908

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Il Teatro Cilea (Cilea Theater) ,situated in Garibaldi course , is one of the heritage  of Reggio ,  you can assist to musicals, concerts, cabarets ecc.. It’s cozy with a 19th Century design

 Il Castello Aragonese (Aragonese Castle), few minutes from the Cathedral you can visit the castle, a historical symbol ,  inside there are really interesting exhibitions  and architecture is really fascinating.

Villa Zerbi (Zerbi Villa), situated on the Waterfront, with beautiful garden in the center of the town, is often a location of exhibitions , revisited with Neo-Gothic Venetian style  of 14th Century.

Scavi di Piazza Italia (Italian Piazza), is one of the most important square of Reggio, below the piazza there are some Greek ruins that you can visit. “The city below the city”, a part with course of shops and a part with the piazza , it tells how many centuries have passed.

These are the most important places to visit.But as a tourist you can stay the night in the several hotels. Reggio offers various Hotels in suggestive places. There are many Bed&Breakfast where there’s the rule of quality/price.

Mark Joseph Vallejo III BI

CALABRIAN PRODUCTS (2nd part)

Top tipical calabrian products

Calabrian licorice

The best licorice was born in Calabria. Licorice defined as the crus, with the best quality in the world. Licorice is a perennial shrub with a woody base up to a meter belonging to the family Leguminosae, it has roots and branches that grow taproots crawling on the ground or bury giving rise to new roots, from which is obtained by boiling the plant extract . The pure licorice from Calabria is particularly well-balanced in the bitter-sweet taste that can be used without any additives or other sweeteners, while the licorice produced in other countries is very bitter. This qualitative primacy did develop in Calabria industry licorice.

Mostaccioli

The mostaccioli cakes are typical from Soriano Calabro but today they are spread all over the world. They are made with natural ingredients, flour, honey and Calabrian hot wort. The cookies are hard, compact, heavy, of various forms, decorated with foil , consumed at fairs, festivals, Christmas and Easter.

Chiacchere

Sweets typical of the period of the Carnival celebrations, in the shape of a strip, sometimes molded into various shapes, made ​​with a mixture of flour that is baked or fried and then dusted with powdered sugar. They can also be covered with honey, chocolate and /or sugar, washed down with alchermes or served with black pudding with mascarpone or sweetened and mounted cream.

Petrali

Cookies typical of Reggio Calabria made ​​of crescent-shaped pastry stuffed with figs, walnuts, almonds, orange peel and tangerine. The exterior is usually garnished with a brushed with beaten egg yolk and small balls of colored sugar, or alternatively can be trimmed with icing sugar, dark chocolate or white chocolate. These cakes are usually prepared and eaten during Crhistmas time.

Pignolata

ypical sweet reggino cone-shaped and covered with warmed honey and is used mainly during the festivities of Carnival. The cake is made from deep-fried dough pellets (called just "pine cones") and covered in honey or white icing on half lemon (or bergamot) and for the remaining half of chocolate vanilla icing.

By Danilo Spinella & Robert Bogdan

Reggio Society

S O C I E T Y 

Population
According to the latest available official data , provided by Istat and updated as at 30.09.2010 , the population of Reggio Calabria is around 186,000.
Ethnic minorities and foreigners
Foreigners living in Reggio Calabria are 9,637, 5.17% of the population. The most numerous national communities are : Romania, Morocco and the Philippines.
Religion
The first religious denomination is Roman Catholic but in the territory of the city other places where you profess other religious rites are located. There are churches for Protestants and Orthodox in Reggio.
Dialect
The dialect is different from other dialects of Calabria, it is instead very similar to the sicilian dialect.
Institutions , organizations and associations
Reggio Calabria is the seat of the Regional Council of Calabria, hosted at the palace Campanella. In the city the following institutions  are also located: the Maritime Directorate of Calabria, General Customs Directorate for Calabria, Archaeological Survey of Calabria.
Quality of life
In 2012, the province of Reggio Calabria was ranked at the 92th place in the annual ranking by Il Sole 24 Ore on the livability of the 107 Italian provinces.

                                                                                                                   By Pellicanò Daniela

Our Town Veria

Gastronomy in Burgundy

Hello,

We will present the different culinary specialities of our pretty region, Burgundy.

 There is also the Fondue of Burgundy, this is meat boiled whit different sauces.

The globally known Snale of Burgundy. It is a strange animal but it is delicious whit butter and garlic.

 

The Dijon mustard is a spicy sauce.

The Beef of Burgundy is meat cooked in red wine. 

The Spice-bread, is a French cake which ingredients are rye flour, honey and spices.

Let's speak about wine, very famous in France and in the world, especially the red wine.

	Finally, In Dijon, an international gastronomic center will open in 2016.
	By Jérémy Maréchal and his friend Jean-Baptiste Cots.