In a year and a half i will hopefully be going on an AFS exchange to Italy from New Zealand for a year. By then i will be 17. Just wondering if anyone can tell me about the high school system there? I tried Googling it but was very confused by all the different types of high schools. And just general life in Italy for teenagers of my age? Thank you!
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in italy the school usually starts at 8:30 and finishes at 13:30.you can choose between a variety of schools,for instance there is the scientifico where you study mostly math,the linguistico where you study mostly languages and so on.however usually ever school has at least 10 subjects and you got to study all of them,i mean they are compulsory,it is not like America where you can decide the things you want to study.generally Italian schools are not so difficult,you study for 9 months and every month there is a classwork or a oral report in every subject in which you have to take at least 6 out of 10(10 is like A,from 5 to 2 is E/F). you want to know general life here?well you can do what you want.you have to study in the morning,in the afternoon you should do your homework and then you can do whatever you want!
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i'm an italian exchange student in the USA!! =) so...in italy there are 5 years of high school, generally (like in my italian school) they put exchange (17yearold)students in the second year, and if they have no difficulties they put them in the third year, but that depends on the school you are going to attend. in italy there are a thousand kind of high schools!! usually is the host family that decide for the exchange student. first, we have "licei", those are usually the most difficult schools, they can be -liceo scientifico (you can study more science) -liceo classico (where you can do humanity studies, subject such as greek, latin, history of art, etc)) -liceo artistico (art classes) -liceo linguistico (languages) then there are "technical schools" -for geometries, -ITIS (you can study physics, chemistry...it depends on the school) -magistrali, where you can study subjects like psychology and etc... then there are many other, professional high schools, but usually exchange students attend one of those i wrote above!! i don't know if your system is similar to the USA's one, but compared o here the biggest difeerences are that in italy if you want to do sports, they are not through the school, but outside... then you cannot create your schedule, then you don't have lunch in school since you have generally 5 or six periods every morning..then most of the students have school on saturday... then you have always the same class, teachers move around the school... general life...hmm...the drinking age in italy should be 16, but even if you are 14 and you want a beer, they give it to you...i don't want to instigate you to drink! it's just that here in the usa everyone thinks that italy is cool just because of that!! anyway...that means that teenager can go to the club earlier, it's generally full of places for people of our age....italian teenagers generally go out on saturday, afternoon and night..and sundays..sport practice is generally 3 days a week, not everyday..it's hard to find rural places and easier to find cities, so it's easy to have fun =) i hope i helped you!!
