The 19th of November is the World Toilet Day celebrated to point out the problem of hygiene all around the world. We joined this event and we spent one school day talking about all the issues connected with the toilet.

In the morning we started with the lesson of the Greek and Latin, where we saw the presentation about the history of the toilets, ruins of them in Pompeii and habits in the toilet of our antic ancestors. Successful presentation also taught us to say in antic Greek and Latin the words linked with the day topic.

Moreover, there was a time for present excellent Italian literature by Boccaccio and his Decameron. We listened to one of our teachers reading and telling a remarkable example of the best world toilet literature. Later we had also the possibility to watch part of the movie “Decameron” by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

We also gave ten minutes to the toilet art and to discover the different shapes of the toilet due to new design. We also spoke about the strange artist Piero Manzoni: He put his excrement to a can in 1971 and he wrote there „The shit of the artist“.

In the artistic way we continued listening two funny songs by Roberto Piumini „La canzone della cacca“ and by Roberto Benigni „Il corpo sciolto“.

Playing the game, where we had to match the flags with the phrase „I want to pee,“ in many European languages was a funny part before the important information about the World toilet day that we gained in English from the teacher of this language. Furthermore we listened to one song made for this day about the problems with the hygiene. The Singing toilet informed us how many children die because of this issue and overall we recognized that the toilet is a very important life-saver.

The last lesson was about physic and chemic process of sewers and why it is so useful to respect the hygienic rules. We were speaking also about the Italian region Piedmont, where our hospital is situated.

In the end we were preparing the advent calendar for the coming December. And which material we should use in this special day? Of course the rolls of toilet paper! Students decorated every of the 24 rolls, in the December they will be closed with a gift inside and day by day, until Christmas Eve, we will open them.