Friday was the day of the Talent Show! After reviewing our corrected exams, we practiced our skits a little more before gathering with the other classes for the event. Outgoing Jim, one of the students from the program, narrated the Talent Show, announcing each group or individual before they performed.

The performances ranged from a recitation of an excerpt of Dante’s Inferno, a cooking show, a sing-along, a version of Cinderella, and of course, my class’s comedic skit—and everything was in Italian for the most part. I liked the cooking show, which compared a typical American snack of PB&J to an Italian snack of baguette and Nutella. The girls passed out plates of samples to the audience, which I especially enjoyed! The students who performed Cinderella also did an impressive job. They translated a shortened version of Cinderella into Italian and tinkered with the ending a little, incorporating some inside jokes that all of us students from the program understood. It was really cute and a lot of fun!

After the Talent Show concluded, we played a game of charades for the remaining class time. If you haven’t seen my latest episode, “La Lingua Italiana,” be sure to check it out, because it has clips of this not-so-typical final day of Italian class!

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