Italian Week

It was another beautiful celebration of the Italian language and culture during the College’s annual Italian Week. Each day PCGs competed against each other to see who could win the Italian quiz each morning. From Tuesday to Thursday at lunch, Tino from Amico Café brought his gelato cart and many boys took advantage of the fresh and authentic gelato on offer. The Years 4 and 5 classes had a visit from Daniele Foti-Cuzzola, co-author of Arriverà la Befana a Fremantle? (Is the Befana coming to Fremantle?). He shared the story of the Befana, the Italian Christmas witch and talked about the tradition of Epiphany in Italy. Tuesday, four Year 11s, Nathan Tobin (11.8), Adam de Masi (11.7), Javier Chadinha (11.4) and Oscar Palermo (11.7), took on Mr Nick Kros, Mr Chris Mayne, Mr James Jesson and Mr Matthew Riley, competing in the staff versus students Giro d’Italia scooter race. It was a hotly contested event with the students taking the lead early, but Mr Mayne put the teachers in the lead at the final changeover. Unfortunately, Mr Kros hit the deck and the students won for the first time since its inception!

Thursday turned out to be a beautiful day with many Italian cars on display in Centenary Park. The boys enjoyed chatting to the owners about the cars and finding out more about them. The Ferrari was certainly a big hit. Many boys enjoyed beautiful slices of pizza from Cicciobello. Mrs Eliza Knapman and Ms Melissa Ierace dressed as Mario and Luigi for the day and we have to say that the 7th Italian Week at Trinity College was a fantastic event.