Monday 20th April: On Monday arrived from Rome to Nola. The friendly owner of the Pensione Tratoria Santa Chiara was to pick us up at the bus stop. Upon arrival we were greeted at the pension, the translator and the school teachers I.T.C.G. Masullo-Theti who accompanied us throughout the week on our trips.
Tuesday 21th April: The next day, we went to school where we again received teachers, along with the director of the center and students participating in the project. In the auditorium, the director first made an institutional presentation, then Italian students presented (in English, Italian and Spanish) the results of the institutional study of Nola and Italy. Then we made our presentation in English and Italian on the economic study of Mota del Cuervo and Spain. Upon completion of the exhibition, we distributed in 5 classes (Spanish, Italian, English, French and mathematics), in which we present ourselves to the rest of students and responded to questions we raised about ourselves, our people and / or our country. We completed the classes, we took several pictures at the door of the school and headed to the City of Nola. Once there, the mayor welcomed us to their city and gave us a present. In the same council, students I.P.S.O.A. Carmine Russo organized a catering in our honor.
That same day, in the afternoon, we visited the archaeological museum, the church and the historic city center.
Wednesday 22th April: On Wednesday we went to school I.T.C.G Masullo Theti where we expect our Italian colleagues, to go to Vietri sul Mare. We visited the company Ceramic Artist Solimene where we were taught the process of making pots, plates, etc., from being modeled and painted until cooked, all following a traditional process. After finishing the visit to this company, we walk through the village and surrounding countryside.
At lunchtime, our Italian colleagues were provided with sandwiches, called Paninos, very typical of Italia.Tras finish the meal visit the Museo della Ceramica Vietrese? where he was waiting for the guide to explain the history of ceramics in the area. After its completion, one of the Italian teachers suffered an unfortunate accident, which made it necessary to return immediately to Nola. However, Spanish and Italian students decided to continue the journey in order to know each other better and exchange views.
Thursday 23th April: That day we visited a lot of things from very early start approaching the Cis-Interporto District where we visited several companies as Italian Hotellerie Nola Idea, Beauty- Grandi, Seda Log Profumerie SpA, Kimbo SPA. The first is a company that sells all the furniture for large areas such as hotels, nursing homes, catering, etc. He had from the kitchen utensils (pots, plates, ladles &), staff clothing, cards for weddings, furniture to furnish such facilities.
The second is a factory of beauty which distributes 80% of the various brands sold in the market for all brands you can imagine and the other 20% is its own brand, that brand is super known in Nola and great the citizens consume. The third company is very large, is dedicated to the manufacture of packaging from boxes of Magnum ice cream, caps and role of ice-cream cones, as the vessels of Pepsi used by chains as well known as Burger King.
In the fourth and final company dedicated to coffee, we showed how the coffee warehouse, storage system and control it arrives. What left us amazed was a totally computerized lifting machine, which was introduced pallet code and row where he was, moving the machine to locate itself.
Another thing that caught my attention is a viewpoint that was in the business complex, where you could see much of all the companies that are in that polygon and extension. In the afternoon, we visited "Palochristian Bailiscae" in Cimitile and then "Antiquarium" in Avella, that night organized at the Pensione Tratoria Santa Chiara competition with the game console which was attended by some Italian friends.
Friday 24th April: That day the bus took us to the city of Pompeii (a sanctuary in ruins), arriving was waiting for a guide named Nello who explained the history of Pompeii. In 79 after an earthquake Vesuvius volcano awoke suddenly and flooded almost the whole city with its ashes. Visited along the guide, Puerta Marrina and The Forum, the Temple of Apollo, the Basilica, the Temple of Jupiter, the Temple of Vespasian, the Temple of Fortuna Augusta, Casa del Fauno (this house was huge and called us much attention because it had a pool in the middle of the house); The other thing we saw was the TERMOPOLIO the Larario (is what you now call a bar), where women who worked there were very interesting, and the kids who went to those sites left him letters written by the walls of the city that it was also made to women working in brothels commercial that went to Pompeii where such premises to be located on the street drew penises pointing the way to the brothels, another thing that the legend is that if you touch one of the penises that are in one of the walls you run the lucky you win the lottery, each of us went to touch her, although our colleague Laura was deceived by the guide and told him to close his eyes and he shake hands when he opened his eyes and realized where his hand was, he was very funny and we all could laugh a lot. After the visit and get the lunch and we went to eat that day had made some sandwiches Italians one for each, after finishing eating could rest a bit to recharge after we played go see a church, where some of our colleagues and professors went to see the bell and here ends our day, we took the bus to and from the pension.
Saturday 25th April: Our last day was spent in Naples, the most populous city in southern Italy. That day we accompanied by a guide to visit the Royal Palace, which told us the many changes that the palace had suffered over the years.
After the visit to the palace, we could walk around the Piazza del Plebiscito and Via Toledo, from there we agreed to the Galleria Umberto I where we could do some shopping. Later we went to the entrance of the castle Maschio Angioino, where we could make some great pictures.
After eating a typical Neapolitan pizza in one of the most traditional restaurants in town, we enjoyed a scenic route of the city, which gave end to our visit to Naples.
Sunday 26th April: The way back home was long and tiring, but in the memory of all was the experience and our new friends.