The Italian cultural show: no words !!!

This very long day has began very early, as we woke up at 7 o'clock to reach ISRO at 8.30. We wasted a lot of time 'cause we had to fill an identification form and to collect our electronic devices as we were not allowed to bring them with us. Finally the visit started. ISRO stands for Indian Space Research Organisation and it is a public agency. It has many centres all over India and its Lead Centre is here in Bangalore, where satellites are designed and built. ISRO deals with many areas, the centre in Bangalore in particular has to do with communication and its main purpose is to provide social and economic benefits in the country. For this
reason ISRO is carrying on a project called TELE EDUCATION, which helps the relationship between the colleges and provides
lectures of qualified professors. Today the colleges linked are 1000.

After this visit we took the bus to go to HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) but our beautiful bus suddendly stopped and we had to push forward it.

The visit to HAL was not so interesting, we saw many photos but we hadn't a guide that could explain us something about these photos and planes.
We returned to XIME for the lunch and then we had a lecture about culture influences behaviours by Mr. Iyengar. This lecture was
very interesting, he spoke about similarities between Indian and Italian behaviours as, for istance, the strong family affiliation, the
relaxed concept of time and the flexibility about the rules.Then we spent some time trying our dances and songs for the cultural show....

Now let's move on to the most interesting part of the day: our cultural show.

After few days the time of the cultural show is come. We are ready...more or less. Now we have to start. Our amazing announcers,
Luca and Raffaella, were really able to catch the attention of the audience. Ready, steady, go! We start with a video presentation of Italy with images of important italian men, cities and celebrities and the song "Nessun Dorma" slide fast giving all strong and beautiful feelings. We carry on with a tipical south italian dance "Pizzica". The dance is very beautiful and it seems that our guys are professional dancers. Amazing!!
The video about our University is quite boring, nine endless minutes!
Now it's the moment of the song: "Domani". The beginning of the song was very good, but after the first mistake unfortunately we continue to make a lot of mistakes. Nevertheless we were very brave. After this problem we have to do our best, so we show the video about our experience in India with the indian students. Listening Vande Mataram and watching those pictures we see the indian students very happy and moved.

After this little surprise we have another one: the Bangra, a tipical indian dance.
Our dancers are so good that it does not seem that they have practiced only from three days! The audience really appreciates our performance. Perfect!
We are not far from the end of our show and our Tutor, Stefano, talk about our flag and its meaning. After that we go on stage dressed with the colours of our flag and we sing our national anthem with all the voice that we have.
Gorgeous!! Everything is beautiful, the show is come to an end...or, to be more exact, we think that it's finished...
We thank everybody and take some picture with the indian guys...and as the show is not finished yet we dance another time Bangra, but now with the Indian students!!! And we go on dancing the Waka Waka and Indian songs with Abhi as coreograph...!! That's a beautiful party, we feel so close and so friend...a unique feeling!!!
Unfortunately we have to stop making noise, we take the last pictures with our indian friends and we exchange greetings!!!

But for us the party goes on...only in another place...!!!! Until now this day has gone better than we could thought...but the evening is only at the beginning...!
We catch the bus to M.G.Road and as tipycal Italians would do we sing, laugh and make a lot of noise, chatching the attention of all the passengers. We reach M.G.Road where we meet a Stefano's indian friend who take us to the disco; we've met him two weeks ago, but we're not still used to his fast step!!! So we arrived to this sumptuous hotel with swimming pools and fountains and we cross it to reach its disco...very very nice, but the drink and the food (we didn't have dinner at the XIME) are very expensive...they cost as a drink in Italy !!!!
We immediately start dancing because the Indian's club close very early...we have only two ours to do our best!!!! The party is going to finish, some of us are smoking at the on-board swimming pool and the desire of dive is so strong that in few minutes we are playing in the swimming pool!!! The staff of the hotel and of the disco is atonished and please us not to make too noise...but unfortunately it is like to talk with a deaf !!!! We're wet and cold, and we have to come back with the tuc tuc...but we don't care...we can say that we had a night bath in Bangalore!!!! So we dry ourself and we're ready for another adventure in rickshaw...we had already tried to travel in four people per rickshaw, but this is the first time we try it in five...! Unforgettable experince...!!!! But we reach the XIME healthy and save, and we continue our party...

The cultural show was amazing and everybody had a lot of fun. If we have to give a mark to this day it would be definitely a 10, everything was perfect! Unfortunately this Summer School is ending, but every day we have done something that we are not going to forget easily. Every day we wrote an episode of this adventure and above all we managed to create a beautiful group!!! Everybody will remember his mates for this incredible days. We felt and we are feeling glorious and strong emotions, and everything will be an indelible remember!!!

Thank you guys, and thank you to the best tutor we could have!!!!!

Samantha e Chantal