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My name is Lina Donata Rechichi.
I teach Italian language, History and Geografy at San Benedetto school, Rome, Italy.
My school is in a quarter of Rome called "Centocelle", and it's a "scuola media statale". "Statale" means public school, "media" means that the pupils are old between 11 and 14. But some student are 15 o 16 because they repeated one or two 'class', that is 1 or 2 years of school. The meaning of Italian term "classe" is different from English "class"... but it is a complex topic, concerning the school system in our country.
I agree with Janet (my leader in the Clubhouse) about the "wonderful and terrible" age of kids! I love working with them too, but sometime I'm getting a little angry with them!

I live in Rome, in Salario quarter. Ancient (III Century)  Aurelianus Wall is near.
I go to school by car, about 10 kilometre (6 miles). It took me thirty five minutes to get to the school, sometime more because of the trafic. Where I leave another problem is parking, but I hope things will going better, because now there is a residents' parking zone. I'm not sure because Italian people often doesn't respect the rules of city traffic so it's possible that I find the parking zone full of cars - but a cars of people who doesn't leave in the quarter!
Luckely, looking out the window of my house, I see the trees of Villa Albani, an ancient noble palace with a large park.

My husband and I have two daughter: Silvia and Elisabetta. Both of them have a degree (engineering and physic). Elisabetta lives still with us, Silvia lives in another house, not far from my house. She has gone away a short time ago.
My husband's name is Massimo. He's a public administration manager. We got married in 1967! Massimo is very patient: usually he doesn't grumble about the lot of time I spend at my computer!
In teacher page of  Modern teen Magazine there are my self introduction too.