ICBIE Testimonials

Testimonials from ICBIE Friends, Volunteers and Students

To engage our whole community in the festivities for the ten years of activity of the Institute, we asked those who were affiliated with the Institute, either in the past or in the present, to write a brief description of what the ICBIE means to them, together with a few significant photos that remember their moments at the ICBIE.

Here are the testimoniale from some of them:

FERNANDA PASSOS:

I am happy and honored to have been an ICBIE student. I thank Professor Marlene for her competence and her  excellent teaching: I really learned a lot! I consider myself privileged to be a part of this family.

VALDENICE SANTANA

The ICBIE was a milestone in my life.  I never would have immagined that I could become fluent in another language during my lifetime, but I was “forced” to do it. The dedication and the methods used by Marlene made it all possible, and it was. The ICBIE offered me a structure where I wouldn’t have learned if I didn’t really want to. I am very grateful for the learning and for the experiences that I had with all the collaborators.  I would like to say a special thank you to Pietro and to Marlene, who accepted me in such a special way. Your consideration was very important to me.

EDUARDO MOREIRA

The ICBIE, for me, is like a second home, but at the beginning it was something unusual and strange, and I seemed to be on another planet. From the ICBIE I received a new vision of people, of culture, of the world, of life… today I have a different way of thinking about the world and I manage to travel without even leaving the place where I am. Thank you ICBIE, for letting me get to know a new and beautiful perspective on life.