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STAGE IN NUERENBERG

Bolzano 22. 05. 2007

For every fourth year of High School, our school organizes a work experience, and this year we had the opportunity to work in another European country, Germany. We stayed in Nuernberg for two weeks, from 6 to 21 November

STAGE IN NUERNBERG

For every fourth year of High School, our school organizes a work experience, and this year we had the opportunity to work in another European country, Germany. We stayed in Nuernberg for two weeks, from 6 to 21 November. Everybody was hosted by a different family and the work each one of us chose, was different, too. I worked in
"Toys"R"us", where I was a shop assistant, so I had to help other workers for the first days, then I had to do my own job. The shop was really big, soI had to memorize all the sectors and then I began to work properly.
As a matter of fact I wanted to work at a car rental, because I would have enjoyed it more. I had to get up at 7 o' clock, had breakfast, and at 8 I had to be ready to start work. In the morning it was really hard. I was very tired, because in the evenings all the class met to stay together. One evening we went to play bowling, another night we went to some pubs, or to eat Chinese food. On Friday I had to work only the morning, then there was the weekend, so we went to a swimming pool that was enormous, and we spent all a day in it, and had lot of fun.
The second week I knew what I had to do, so it was simpler for me to help the costumers to find the product that they wanted. My guest-family had a small house in the south of the city, so I had to catch the metro or go by bicycle to get to the shop. The last days of work I was really tired because I wasn't used to work in a shop, not during school time. I could notice many differences between my culture and the German one. The first thing that was different was the food: in Italy we cook very well, it's quite a ritual, instead in German they don't care much about food, so they did not cook much and not with the same passion that we use. In Italy we have dinner round 8pm, in Germany they ate before, at six and a half, or at seven. They often don't cook because they don't have time, so they eat something quick. Another difference is the relationship between parents and children:
the latter didn't have any respect for the parents who let them do what
they want. I liked the experience and I would advice it to another student: the first days maybe we cannot understand the habits of our guest families, and that is quite within the norm because it's another "world", other costumes, so we have to know them and try to understand them.

I enjoyed this work experience because I saw a different world that is
different from that in which I usually live. After this work experience I
learnt that until I can study at school I will do it, and than I will start
working.