Parent News - Ailee Gilbert-Roberts

Tue 04 Apr 2006

Ailee's son Oscar, from The Gap State High School in QLD, is currently in Italy on our academic year program.

"Can't believe that two months have gone and I haven't let you know how thrilled I am with the home stay you and your partners have provided for Oscar. He loves everything; his family, his friends, his school, his teachers (Italian teachers don't shout!), and he wakes up everyday still in awe of the beautiful surroundings he lives in. The house is full of people (the grandmother lives on one side and the uncle and his family are on the other), Oscar is experiencing wonderful Italian food (and home-fermented wine!... and coco pops for breakfast!) and the grandmother is trying to find a coffee that he likes (she is unable to understand how a boy could reach his age and not drink coffee).
Probably like a lot of parents, as the time grew closer I worried that it might not be the best thing for him to go, at least not for such a long time, but now I am experiencing (through long animated telephone conversations and joyful emails) just what a great educational and life embracing and absolutely positive opportunity this is!"