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The DaF-Suedost Network - Alberto Meazza from Italy: the 500th member. In April 2004, our first member registered online. Since then, more than 500 colleagues have opted for a DaF-Network membership in order to receive regular information and maintain contacts with colleagues all over Europe. The DaF-Network welcomes its 500th member with a special gift and presents to you Alberto Meazza in a short interview with the coordinator of the Network, Dagmar Schäffer: Hello Mr. Meazza! Welcome and congratulations! As coordinator of the DaF-Network, I am pleased to welcome you as the 500th member of our European teachers' community. Being our "celebrated member" you receive a small gift, a decorative silver bowl from the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece. It would be nice if you could also answer me some questions. Why did you become a member of our DaF-Network and how did you hear about us? I learnt about you from the Goethe-Institute in Milan, which always offers German teachers valuable information. I think your web page is very interesting. I have already printed out a few things for my pupils, who prepare among other things for the ZD exams. The only disadvantage of your site is the fact that I have never enough time to surf! Where do you work? Could you briefly present your school and your work? I'll try to give you a n idea of my every day life at school. I have been a German teacher for 21 years and fortunately I still enjoy it very much. I have been teaching for the last six years at the Science High School "Piero Bottoni" in Milan (the web page of the school is www.liceobottoni.it). At present, I teach five classes, my pupils are between 14 and 19 years old and at the end of the last grade they pass written and oral exams in German as part of their High School Degree. I teach approximately 75 pupils, while the whole High School has 670. What do you think is the most beautiful thing about your work? What I like most about my work is of course the contact with the young people and with their lives just about to unfold. I also like the idea that I am there for them to solve their problems or at least to try to understand them. In this process, the German language and literature should extend their abilities to express themselves and to see the world from a different angle. Have you participated in any international project (Comenius project, pupils' exchange etc.)? If yes, what was your experience? Here are a few photos of our school exchange with the Saint George High School of Bocholt in Germany (you see us on Düsseldorf airport, in Münster, Bocholt, and in the Chocolate Museum in Cologne) last October. We have been cooperating with them for the last 3 years: the German pupils will come to Milan this year on April, 30th and they will stay with us for 5 days. Now we are looking for a partner school from France, who would like to start a pupils' exchange with us. Perhaps there are schools out there interested? (If you are interested, please contact the coordinator of the network, Dagmar Schäffer, and she will inform Mr. Meazza.) Thank you very much for this portrait, Mr. Meazza. We wish you all the best and hope you continue enjoying your work and your membership in this Network. The network community daf-netzwerk.org is open for teachers from all over the world and also for all persons, which are interested in the field of language teaching. You can easily register as a member of the community, if you are interested in innovation and European consciousness in methodology and practice of German teaching and learning. As a member you can discuss in a protected area of the website direct with all partners of the network-project and you and your institution are listed on the member site with a link to your own homepage. Online-registration as a member. Do you have questions? Please contact us. Redaktion DaF-Netzwerk.org