Today (Monday 27 September) students spent the day in school presenting talking point presentations to Italian student covering a number of topics about the Australian way of life.

At the conclusion of the school day students travelled to the old Fiat Factory for an afternoon of retail therapy. Located in the Lingotto district, Turin's FIAT factory first began building its luxury automobiles here in 1923. At that time it was the most advanced factory in the world, with an assembly line that rolled new cars out onto the roof level, where they could be test driven. It is now a modern complex of shops, concert halls and a hotel, but parts of the old factory remain and can be visited.

For many of you back home who have not travelled to Italy may be familiar with the FIAT factory and seen it on the film ‘The Italian Job’

To get to the shopping complex students walked through the Olympic Village of the 2006 Winter Olympics which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006.

On Tuesday students will travel high up to the mountains of Mont Blanc where they will spend the day take a cable car to the top where they will spend the day in the snow and mountains in territory and climate which is so unlike the countryside in sunny Mount Gambier.