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Teachers and students from Palazzolo and Footscray

This is the story of a group of students from Palazzolo, in Sicily, and Footscray, that have been pen-pals for a while, and finally met thanks to a cultural and linguistic exchange between Italy and Australia.

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By Carlo Oreglia

Presented by Francesca Rizzoli

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This is the story of a group of students from Palazzolo, in Sicily, and Footscray, that have been pen-pals for a while, and finally met thanks to a cultural and linguistic exchange between Italy and Australia.

They visited SBS Italian, in our studios in Melbourne.

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