EXPERTS

I have grown up in Sicily, and I did not go to a nursery school, but to a pre-primary school. My teachers were nuns and one of the toys available for us were little stilts. One time I asked one of the nuns if she wanted to try them, too.

I like to remind the afternoons spent to play with my sister and our common friend. Our favourite game was the “Rubber band” play. It was a simple game because it foresaw only the use of an elastic ribbon tied at the ends.

There is an event of my childhood that I remember very well. I have been around 2 years and a half, maximum 3 years old, and at that time I lived at Lavino, a small village close to the surroundings of Zola Predosa, near Bologna. It was a very cosy green area with a small river.

I remember with pleasure and nostalgia my grandparents from my father's side. I remember that I passed most of the day with them - my grandma was very good at cooking, and when I was with them at lunch, she prepared a special pasta with courgettes and tomatoes - she knew that I liked that very very much!

A memory of my childhood, happening in the last year of my attendance at pre-primary school, has to do with the impossibility to participate in a didactic event promoted by the pre-primary school teachers in autumn.

I do not have a precise memory about my childhood. It was for me a happy period. I did not go to a kindergarten because this institution exists in my country Bangladesh only for about 10 years. Schools for children from 0 to 3 years are still less common and too expensive.