“Mi piace! Mi piace quando tu sei felice!” These lines to an Italian pop song have been playing over and over in my head all day! You see, today was the last day of Italian class. After we reviewed our corrected finals (I got an A!), we did course evaluations, and then our class and another class prepared for a sing-off.
Our teacher, Mario, put the CD in the stereo, gave us each a copy of the lyrics, and left us to play the song repeatedly while we sang along. We were allowed to keep the lyrics, but we were supposed to memorize the beat because during the sing off, the professors would lower the music, wait a few seconds, and then raise it again to see if we were singing the correct part. After quite a bit of practice, and after listening to the song enough times for it to be stuck in our heads for the weekend, we moved into a bigger room where the competition commenced.
We sang with great enthusiasm and our best pronunciations against the other class, which matched our efforts. Then, after some biased judging on the parts of the two professors, as well as some cheating on the part of Mario, our class was declared the winner. Regardless of which class really won, it was quite the fun way to end the first month of Italian class. Now if I could just get the song out of my head…

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