Italian Team’s arrivalat Film Studio Island

To arrive at Film Studio Island we first took the train to Milan and then a planeto Sicily. It took us 5 hours to arrive to Trapani in Sicily.

From Trapani, we travelled by boat to Film Studio Island.. We took threeboats, because we are a large group! We arrived at our destination in 5 hours, and we were amazed at howbeautiful the island was! We are going to enjoy our stay here! We’llmeet new friends, learn aboutcinema and videos, and go back home richer in friendship, collaboration and skills

These were our brave and adventurous classmates that travelled with a small boat…

This is Film Studio Island from the sky. It is small but not too much, with plenty of vegetation and sandy beaches, warm sunny days and clear sky. It is in the Mediterranean Sea, just a couple of hours from the isles of Malta and Cyprus.

Our teacher Francesca was waiting for us at the docks, she gave us FSI flag and map. She wasreally happy we could arrive to the island on time, and eager to start working on the project.

We are landing on the island here. The first impression was amazing, the weather reallywarm even if a bit windy, and we wanted to explore the island immediately because itpromised to be very enjoyable.

When we were moving towards the hotel, our teacher also gaveus the leaflet of the island. Some of us were really happy, becausewe arrived safely and everything was beautiful and fun.

This is the information our teacher gave us: FSI map, FSI flag and a leaflet with news from the island. Thank youso much!

Some of us were so excited by the beauty of the natural environment that we decided to walkon the beach as soon as we could, even beforereaching our hotel rooms.. Can you imagine, westill had our travelling clothes and bags on!!

Then, we moved to the Hotel where we’re going to stay. We will share bedroomswith our Turkish friends, two of us with one of them, and enjoy all our days with them. Bedrooms are beautiful, with plenty of space, TV and DVD player, and there’salso free wifi on the island!

During the day, the hotel staff invited us to taste the typicaldish of FSI, that is called CARBOMANTI, and enjoy the traditional dance of the island. Some of us even tried to dance it!

Later, we had some drinks at the youth club, we were really happy because the place was lively and young, and the weather wasquite nice too.

Matteo is a bike-lover, therefore he decided to discover the island cycling in its hugenatural park. He is probablylooking at the Turkish friends that are strollingaround there.

p.s.: bikes are free and the hotel gives them!

Lorenzo and Marco decided to go for a walk and discover the restaurantsof the island, where they wanted to taste the tipical dish once again. Later, Matteo joined them (can you see him in the back??)

In the afternoon, Imane and Aya where tired because of the journey by sea, and theydecided to go and relax along the many paths that run across Film Studio Island. The parks are all well kept, with many trees and flowers, and you can do many sportsthere, such as walking, running, roller-skating, cycling, and there are even some football grounds and tennis courts.

Some of us alsowanted to see the Studios, the schoolwhere we willspend our dayslearning aboutcreating videos, shooting, actingand rehearsing, and whatever islinked to films! That’s the realreason for the existence of Film Studio Island!

Filippo and Alessio decided to explore the areas where we will meet during ourproject. They found FSI club very attractive, because it is an open space wherepeople can have fun, talk and share ideas in a friendly way.

Tamara and Giada went for a walk to the centre in the evening. They discovered a fantastic and very long walkof fame, with the names of all students that have beento the island before us. Theyfound out that Italian and Turkish teams from otherschools had already beenhere!

In the evening, some of us went to the rearpart of the hotel, where a beautiful swimmingpool was located. It was empty of water, so we jumped in to take this nice picture!

Then, because wewere exhausted of the journey and of all the activitieswe did on our first day at the island, we simply neededto go to sleep in our rooms, and meet our Turkishroommates…