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Yesterday we started a new mobility in Helsinki. In this case our partner Patricia is going to participate in a course in which she is going to explore more about the finnish educational system. Yesterday she had a free day and she went to Porvoo, which is the second oldest city in Finland. The temperature there was -1⁰C unless it was a sunny day as could be seen on the pictures .

During the last session on the course they had studied the importance of empathy, concience and inclusion in order to create a multicultural group. Also the students have received their final diplomas of participating in the course. During the afternoon they climbed the two main attraction of the city which as the Degli Arineri and Garisenda towers. These towers are 97,20 meters high and have and spectacular picture of the city.

 During the Thursday morning Ana had the opportunity to do 2 different role play game. She has evaluate the importance that the culture, the body language, the mother tongue as well as the different point of view has in our live. After that she had explore the intercultural life eating in an african restaurant.

The day finished with a trip to the city of Romeo and Juliet, in this case Verona, where she has visited the Duomo, the Arenal as well as experienced the carnival of the town.

On the third session our college Ana has worked different role play in which the main topic was the empathy and the importance of communicating in the classroom. Furthermore, she had had the opportunity to travel to one of the most important cities in Italy, in this case to Florence where she has gone to visit the Art gallerie, the Vecchio Pont as well as other important monuments of the city.

During the day our teacher Ana has had the opportunity to learn more about important words related with the integration of students. On the lesson she studied the importance that the stereotypes, prejudices and believe have in the classes and how these elements need to be taken out of the school. She also has experienced different examples and dynamic activities in order to put in practice everything when she came back.

Also, during the afternoon they had the opportunity to visit the most important churches of Bologna as well as the historical library of the first european university. After that, they had some free time to explore a little bit the street of the city and they have concluded the day eating a delicious italian pizza.

Today was the first day that our partner Ana attended to classes. During the day they have created first of all a tree in which they had to specified their expectations, contributions and fears of the course. Apart from that, they has also known the difference between 3 important words such as: intercultural, multicultural and cross cultural learning.

During the afternoon they went to the Santuary of San Luca. It is considered the longest sanctuary because it has a distance of 3.779 high. The evening finished tasting a traditional italian gelato and watching some lyrics of the singer Rafaella Carrá in a street.