We discovered Sicilian, cultures and their traditions.

I am Wenna Ramahatratra. I’m an international trade student in Poitiers in France. We arrived in Sicily, more precisely in Balestrate on Saturday 5th May 2018. First of all, we were all divided into different companies in Balestrate. I was placed at Marina Holiday Resort & Spa, which is a 4 and a half star hotel. My work in this hotel is based mainly on prospecting and therefore communication. So, I had different tasks like creating a database; secondly the emailing and finally the phoning.
These tasks were entrusted to us to attract even more potential customers in the hotel; moreover, they also allowed us to search for several partnerships, etc …
During these 7 weeks of training, we also had English lessons every Thursday afternoon, courses on international business, courses on the history of Sicily, courses to improve our level of English.
Secondly, apart from our internship, outings bringing all together the 25 students were organized. For example, an excursion to Partinico, to a museum of the marionette, then a visit to the commune of Partinico as well as shops, a day trip to Palermo has been scheduled, a day trip to the volcano "Etna", a boat trip.
Thirdly, we had press conferences, meetings filmed by the Sicilian TV, interviews about our internship, what we do here, about the project that we have been working on.
All our conferences were filmed by the press and broadcast on the newscast of Sicily / the Italia …
Sicily is, therefore, several strengths already thanks to its turquoise sea, its high temperatures, our place of internship well located, also thanks to the kind and very sociable people bringing us so a good mood in the breasts of this commune. In the evening, we have a bar-restaurant "the why not" which is a nice place offering us dishes and drinks at reasonable prices. This restaurant is usually our meeting place at night with other students on our course. We were also able to taste Sicilian specialties such as "bruschettas .." and their pizzas, their pastries.
We also discovered their cultures, their traditions, their sacred monuments, their natural reserves. This internship brought us further professional experience, additional skills in business and communication. He also introduced us to the island while working.