High School in Italy (14 to 18 years old)

  Italy

• Florence: 
Florence
• Rome: 
Roma (Rome)
• Venice: 
Venice
• Milan: 
Milan
• All Other Areas in Italy: 
Pistoia,  Siena,  Pisa,  Viareggio,  Trento,  Alghero,  Altomonte,  Amalfi (southern Italy),  Assisi,  Asti,  Naples,  Baiardo,  Belforte,  Bologna,  Maremma,  Carpi,  Belforte all'Isauro,  Capo Vaticano,  Chianti,  Como,  Padua,  Sorrento,  Fabriano,  Agropoli,  Spoleto,  Asolo,  Viterbo,  Faenza,  Verona,  Camerano,  Vicenza,  Feltre,  Ferrara,  Varesse,  Lucca,  Cornedo Vicentino,  Citta della Pieve,  Pompeii,  Frontino,  Genoa,  Urbino,  Jesi,  Livorno,  Macerata,  Legnano,  Bolsena,  Vitorchiano (VT),  Pietrasanta,  Pizzo Calabro,  Caserta,  Portico di Romagna,  Posada,  Positano,  Reggello (by Florence),  Reggio Emilia,  Capri,  Paestum,  Herculaneum,  Tivoli,  Salemi,  San Giovanni,  San Remo,  Selva,  Senigallia,  Sondrio,  Sulmona,  Avezzano,  Trani (a beautiful town on the Adriatic coast),  Tropea,  Madonna Di Compiglio,  Caira,  Orvieto,  Padova,  Parma,  Modena,  Pavia,  Perugia,  Piacenza,  Monza,  Udine,  Montepulciano,  Nocera Umbra,  Novi Ligure,  Oristano,  Otranto,  Pisciotta,  Rimini,  Arezzo,  Milano,  Gressonei-la-Trinita,  Cortina d'Ampezzo,  Bolzano,  Casale Monferrato
• Sicily: 
Syracuse,  Cefalu,  Palermo,  Taormina,  Trapani
• Torino: 
Torino (Turin)

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Dates: September 2009 to June 2010

Description: The primary purpose of the Academic Year Program in Italy is to improve the students knowledge of Italian culture and language through active participation in family, school and community life. A secondary purpose is to improve the Italians knowledge of the foreign culture. The Academic Year Program is designed to give the student an opportunity to spend a certain period studying at an Italian high school. For the duration of the program, the student is placed with an Italian volunteer family.

Students will be placed in any region of Italy according to availability, and no student can request a specific geographic area or environment.

Classes usually take place during the morning of week days, including Saturday.
The schedule generally goes from 8:00 am to 1:00-2:00 pm. Lunch is not served in the Italian schools.
Class attendance is compulsory, and if a student misses one or more days of school he/she must have a written justification by the family. Similarly students are not allowed to enter late, or exit from school in advance, without a written permission of the family or, in case of some sudden illness, without the intervention of a teacher or of the Preside himself.

Italian students have a lot of homework to do at home. Your students should attempt to complete all their homework as well, from the very beginning, in order to get used to it and to participate more actively to the school life.

There are some schools, unfortunately not many, which have extra-curricular activities in the afternoon (sports, theatre and so on). Students often organize these activities themselves if they are not organized by the school. During the morning there is a 10-15 minute break (intervallo), during which the students leave their classes and meet in the corridors of the school, or take advantage of this break to have a snack.

At the beginning most foreign exchange students consider the intervallo as a moment of great confusion, but after a while they will appreciate this lively and joyous break.
Saturday morning classes may apply.

Highlights:
* Accommodation: Volunteer host family, on a full board basis. We will place the student with a carefully selected Italian family or families for the duration of the program. We shall interview host families at their home to assure that they have the capacity and economic resources to properly host a teenage exchange student. The host family will provide accommodation, meals in the home, and at the familys option a packed lunch for school if lunch is not taken at home. All meals away from home (including school lunches) are to be paid for by the student.

* Length: Academic year (10 months), semester (5 months), short term (1, 2 or 3 months)

Every student must be interviewed in their home country before being accepted.

* You Must Have At Least 2 Years of Italian Language Studies.

Courses are held in Italian only.

Cost in US$: From 3495 euros (semester)

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Phone Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Transcript
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Nacel International's Mission Statement: No one learns the same way. No one has the same level. No one has the same goal. Nacel International proposes a large variety of stays abroad, which will help you to develop your personality. Their goal was to provide opportunities for students to extend language learning and knowledge of another culture through a well-organized and affordable summer program. These programs bring people together enhancing cultural and linguistic awareness and to promote international friendship and harmony.

Year Founded: 1957