Impressions Trikala

IMPRESSIONS TRIKALA

Hello everyone!

I’m Nicola Sgarbi, a pupil of the Don Milani school in San Giorgio Bigarello and this year I took part in the “Be clean, go green” project. I want to thank the school that gave us this great opportunity, the professors who accompanied us to Greece, the European Commission that gave us the funds for Erasmus, the families who hosted us, but also the school that welcomed us and all the people who took us on tours. So I thank everyone for this fantastic experience that made me grow a lot and therefore I feel lucky.

We were hosted in Trikala which is a very nice and well kept city.

The excursions were:

• The smart city control center, the municipal sports museum, the Tsitsani’s museum, a walking tour of Trikala
• Visit to the facilities of the landfill site, in matter of recycling
• University Forest in Pertouli
• Lake Plastiras Botanical Garden
• Kalampaka and Meteora, the Holy Monastery of Varlaam and St. Stephen’s Monastery, the digital Projection Centre of Meteora’s History and Culture, The Natural History and Mushroom Museum, Gisemi

The excursion I liked most was:

– Meteora, a UNESCO heritage site, are Orthodox monasteries located on high rocks. The view and the landscape immediately made me fall in love with Meteora; in fact, it was my favorite excursion.

I also liked

• Pertouli, which is a small mountain village controlled and preserved since 1934 by the School of Forestry of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I really liked the idea that a university safeguards a natural landscape.

• In visiting the Recycling center, I was intrigued to see how other cities handle the waste problem. Maybe we can learn from them by taking good practice and even improve them.

In my opinion, this experience can be useful to everyone because it helps you improve your English, and also learn how to deal with problems, socialize and get to know other people … and even overcome some of your fears. 

I will always remember this adventure; it was of great help to me and it will be for my future as well,now I feel more confident than before. I wasn’t at ease at speaking because I was focused on thinking whether what I wanted to do was right or wrong, but now I understood it is more important to try than to make mistakes, because you learn from mistakes.

I am delighted and satisfied to be part of the Erasmus project and I recommend everyone to try it. 

While working on the topics of the project I became aware of the urgency of taking care of the environment. I learned that the current problems of our planet are sometimes underestimated. On the contrary I think they must be addressed and resolved shortly to offer a good life to future generations. I also discovered how hydroponic cultivation would contribute to preserving the environment and planet. 

In my opinion this  trip was also a sign of hope. After two years of closure due to Covid, we can travel again .

Now I would like to thank the family who hosted me. I thank them for how they welcomed me, they were very kind, helpful, funny and sociable. I thank them with all my heart and I will always remember them because they have done a lot for me.