I am an Italian studying in Brighton. I have been here for only a month.

I find the people are very friendly. In Italy, when we speak about English people, we think you are "cold people" but I can say this is false.

The bus drivers here, for example, always say hello and goodbye. Once, I got on the wrong bus and had to catch another but I was not sure it was the right one, so I asked the bus driver which bus I could catch.

He explained to me there was another on the other side and I should wait for five minutes.

The English people are very helpful and when you don't understand something they repeat slowly what they want to say.

There is only one thing I don't like about the English. Children, unlike adults, are very rude.

In the bus they shout all the time, they burp in front of older people and if they bump into somebody they laugh and don't even say sorry or excuse me.

I find it strange to be living in a city were adults are so polite and friendly but their children so ill-mannered.

-Rafaella Cemin, Italy