French, Maltese students exchange visits

A group of 18 students from St Michael School, Qormi, accompanied by four others from St Aloysius' College, Birkirkara, and two from St Elias College, St Venera, recently returned from a week-long visit to the region of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France. The visit reciprocated an earlier visit to Malta by a group of French students from Collège Bernard de Ventadour, and the student exchange formed part of an e-twinning project that St Michael School has with the college.

In France, the Maltese students' visited Avignon, Marseille, le Pont du Gard, the soirée théâtrale at Uzès, the Musée d'Art Sacré de Pont-Saint-Esprit, apart from going for walks in woods and by rivers. In Bagnols-sur-Cèze's salle de la Pyramide, the Maltese students performed in both French and Maltese the play Matti written by Joe Friggieri and directed by Clive Piscopo. Mr Piscopo, Joe Buttigieg, Carlos Azzopardi, and Elaine Pace accompanied the students during the visit.

For their week-long visit to Malta the French students attended the school's sports and cultural evenings and were taken on excursions around the Maltese Islands, including tours of Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra and visits to Mdina and Gozo, arranged by project co-ordinator Tonio Caruana.