I voted! I was so happy! I was scared of voting because I didn't know what it meant. Everyone kept telling me it was important—that we needed two classmates to be representatives for the whole class. But I kept saying no, I wouldn't vote. I even sent voice messages to everyone on WhatsApp saying I definitely wasn't going to vote. They'd ask, "What do you mean? President Mattarella even wrote to you and you won't vote?" I was really happy that Mattarella wrote to me in his own handwriting and told me to keep studying hard. But I still didn't want to vote. Then they told me all my classmates would be voting. I never see them all together because we're split into three groups. So I said okay—I'll vote too!
Then I got scared at the gate and didn't want to go inside. They all came down!!! All of them!!!! I started laughing and felt happy. They were laughing too. They all had their masks on and kept coming over one by one to convince me. I waited for each one to come talk to me, and then I went up. But I'd already decided I was going. I just liked that they all kept saying they were happy I was voting too and that it was important that I voted. I went up when they all told me to. They gave me a piece of paper and a pen. But in class, only one person at a time could go in to vote. The others had to stay outside, and not even close by. That part was annoying, but I did it. And my classmates did it too. So I went in alone and sat at my desk and wrote Daniela and Aisha's names on the paper. They told me those were the only names I could write. But I was happy because I really like Daniela and Aisha. They're nice. Then I put the paper in a box. At the end they told me Daniela and Aisha won because those were the only names you could vote for. That's fine! But I think we all won because we were all there. Me too. After that I did lots of other things. I had an echocardiogram at Bambin Gesù, at San Paolo, where there's a playground too, near my house. But voting with my classmates made me happier than anything.