Luca Perez Moretti

Destination: Guelph, District of Ontario, Canada. The Barro High School student lives a 20-minute bus ride from downtown Guelph. Luca defines his host city as very pretty, but also picturesque. He says that’s the word. It has very low buildings and a cathedral in the middle, he gives as an example. In his family he has five house sisters, two from Japan, one from Vietnam, one from Italy and one from Germany. With the latter two, it shares an institute, the Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute (CCVI). She explains that it’s a huge school, with 2,800 students, and that she signed up for the cheerleading squad. Luca considers socializing with people and making plans one of the best things about his stay, although he says Canadians are somewhat aloof at first and don’t open up much. Among those plans outside the studios, he mentions going to the movies or having dinner, going to the Guelph mall or celebrating a birthday. Although she has been with her foster family for just over a month, Luca insists she is doing nothing wrong. The worst?, we ask him. Perhaps the most difficult subject is to learn the names in English to write because I have already seen the program in Spain. I teach biology and there are science words in English that are very different. As in the United States, in Canada too much importance is given to sport during school training. There are many sports, very different from Spain, emphasizes Luca, who from this experience, thanks to the grant from the Amancio Ortega Foundation, highlights above all what brings cultural mixing. There are people here from all over the world. There are many Italians, but also Belgians, Germans, Japanese or Chinese…