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GIANNA.

The delightful account of an Italian high school girl here in the United States on an American Field Service Scholarship

BY LIBBY MACHOL

THIS true, heartwarming, informative story of an Italian teen-ager's impressions of America will open your eyes to a new perspective on your own society ... and thrill you with the possibilities of the inspired international program on which it is based.

Each year the American Field Service International Scholarship Program brings 3,000 high school students from over sixty countries to the United States to live as participating members of American families---and arranges a similar experience for about 1,300 United States youngsters.

Here is the story of 17-year-old Gianna Bosco's year with Dick and Libby Machol and their daughters, Jill and Pat, in Teaneck, New Jersey. Mrs. Machol tells it with eloquent straightforwardness. You become thoroughly engrossed in the narrative . . . in the effervescent charm of Gianna herself ... before you realize how much information you are absorbing.

Gianna's openness and candor make her a perfect mirror for those of us who live too close to the changing folkways of contemporary America to examine our way of life in the context of other cultures.

Her impressions of the American high school which she attended with Jill Machol . . . her observations on the dating habits of American adolescents . . . her introduction of Italian cooking to the Machol kitchen, and of an Italian accent to the Machol's Christmas celebration.. . her struggles with the illogic of the English language---indeed.. the entire scope of her personal, exuberant discovery of America---prove every bit as entertaining for the reader as they did for Teaneck.

Each AFS student's year in America ends with a tour of the nation, in company with youngsters from many other lands. Gianna's reflections on this tour (and on the other students she met), her meeting with the President of the United States, and the return visit which the Machols made with the Bosco family in Milan add a rewarding extra dimension to this moving, informative book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LIBBY MACHOL, who was Gianna's "American mother" in Teaneck, is no stranger to the task of captivating readers. While this is her first major nonfiction publication, her short stories have entertained the demanding audiences of such periodicals as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. A graduate of Radcliffe, she is a past president of the AFS chapter in Teaneck, New Jersey.

TO THE MEMORY OF Stephen Galatti DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE

Copyright 1967 by Elizabeth R. Machol
Library of Congress catalog card number: 67-24892

Contents

I. Red Tape II. Benvenuta---Welcome IV. New Ideas, New Friends V. School VI. The Feast of San Gennaro VII. Fall Weekend VIII. The Gourmet Cook IX. The Awful English Language X. Christmas XI. Speeches XII. A Letter from Dani XIII. Pennsylvania, Parties, and Passover XIV. The Baby Chicks Go Tsu-tsu-tsu XV. Except We Change Their Hearts XVI. Senioritis XVII. Bus Stop XVIII. Americans Abroad XIX. And It Comes Back Buttered Appendices 1. My Own Private International Cookbook 2. American Field Service Statistics

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