Matteo's Report

April 20, 2008

this is my first report after a long long time.. i think if i try to apologize to you, finding some excuses i probably won't succed.


this is not going to be a list of things i've done since my last report. i want that these words will make me understood by you guys. this is gonna be a thought, pondered reflection about my presence here.


i don't know why i stopped writing my  reports to my rotary district, maybe i thought it was just useless, a waste of time, or maybe just i didn't feel like doing it just because i was lazy. but now i can say i feel like an idiot: i just came to realize that my presence here is a kind of miracle; i wanted so bad to leave my native country, to travel, to meet new people, new faces, to learn better another language and live by speaking it, to deal with a completely different lifestyle and life in general. the rotary club gave me, us, this opportuny, we just must be thankful for where we are now. i think this is the moment to do it. this is the best thing that i, we, could have ever imagine. A way to open your mind, your eyes, to make you understand how the world works from a different point of view, in my opinion that's the porpuse of the rotary youth exchange program. now it is my, our duty to share our thoughts, adventures, opinions of what we are passing here, not only to our district dude, the rotary youth chairperson and so forth..this is for we ourselves, all of you that belong to the rotary club, all of you that are going to be rotarians, for all of you that are going to leave your native country to undertake an adventure, for all of you visitors of the rotary club 6990 website, for you past exchange students, whose memory does not want to disapper, dissolve as time passes, for all those parents worried about sending their "child" somewhere in the world. this is for you.


i, we exchange students will never gonna be the same again.. i can feel it on myself; it's for sure a good thing, that's another way to say and explain the amount of changes we are living now..writing reports.
that's a way to say thank you..and i will say it until my last breath is taken away...