The most popular things in Italy that everyone does, or at least watches, are sports. Especially soccer! You won’t find many people that aren’t playing soccer in their spare time, or that just don’t like it. Bars and living room TV sets all support and appreciate the Sunday afternoon games. The Italian soccer teams are the second most successful national team across the world, and people would definitely not want to miss seeing them play. Their soccer team has won the World Cup four times, in 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006. Every major Italian city has a soccer team, not just in elementary schools, but the major league teams too. Now not many people in America are too keen on watching soccer. Most of it is baseball, football, hockey, or basketball. Something America and Italy have in common is basketball. The second most loved sport in Italy is basketball; unlike soccer some major cities have more than one team that play it. Lots of the disabled people in Italy are still able to play sports, too. Italy makes it so everyone can play because Italians pretty much breath for sports. Although soccer and basketball are the two favorites of all the others, the Winter Olympics and winter sports in general are just as interesting and exciting for them to watch. Almost everyone in Italy likes to ski and go out just to watch the skiers fluff up some snow. A lot of people join in on the skiing themselves …show more content…
Only in Italy it’s mandatory that you go to school until you’re at least fourteen. The education system is divided into three sections, but before that the infants go to a day nursery, while toddlers and children up to six years old go to a nursery. The first year of real school is known as “Scuola Elementare”. Scuola Elementare lasts five years and starts at age six. The second part of school is known as “Scuola Media”, which is three years long. If all goes well, at the end of that three years the student will receive their diploma. In each of the classes the students can range from ten to twenty-five kids. Their curriculum includes Italian, English, Geography, History, Math, Science, Tech. school, Music, Art, and P.E. They have most of the same classes as a regular high school in the U.S. Here in the United States we also have public schools along with private schools. More than ninety percent of kids go to the public schools in Italy, and any senior high school graduate can go and attend a university. There are about forty-seven different universities they can choose from. All together the universities enroll more than a million students per year. The time they go to school is about the same amount of time we go to school. We tend to begin in August, and Italians start in September. They also get out in June. The academic year is divided into either two or three segments for the year, September to January,