International Evening

On Tuesday night we had an international evening, this means each class throughout a couple weeks had to research 2 countries, make some traditional food and come up with a performance to share with the school all from those countries. Room one chose Italy and South Africa as our countries, we had about a week and a half to practice our performances and get ourselves ready. For Italy we did a traditional Italian dance and for South Africa we sang shosholoza, but we didn't finish there. We also did 2 Korean dances and our cultural elective performance. After we perfected our dances we tried out doing some traditional art and drawing our own Mona Lisa. The night quickly rolled around, we ate a lot of delicious food from all over the world and before I knew it we were up on stage with our last performance. This was really fun and I enjoyed seeing all of the effort being put into each performance! 

I want to say a big thank you to all of the parents who made food and all of our teachers who put in a lot of time to help us with this!

 

Cultures

 

Italy 

South africa

Samoa 

Food 

Pasta

Pizza

Bread sticks

Lasagna 

Risotto

Truffles 

Malva pudding-baked sponge cake

Amarula don pedro -indiginous marula fruit liqueur mixed with ice cream

Melktert- custard tart

Fa´apapa - coconut bread

Panikeke - sweet banana fritters

Panipopo - homemade bread rolls

Kopai - sweet dessert dumplings

Clothing 

Italian peasants wore practical clothing for their daily activities, with simple pants and shirts for the men and blouses and skirts for the women

long skirts and aprons in beautiful printed or embroidered fabrics. Elaborate beaded necklaces called ithumbu are worn around the neck, as well as beaded bracelets and anklets

The traditional ladies clothing is the puletasi which is a matching skirt and tunic with Samoan designs. The lava-lava is a sarong which may be worn by men or women. They are of different patterns and colors, but tend to be plain for men who may wear it as part of an official uniform.

Art 

Mona lisa

Starry night

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci influenced the  Renaissance as Bernini and Borromini influenced baroque Italy.

African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent

Siapo. One important and oldest traditional Samoan art is siapo, or tapa. Siapo is a type of cloth that is made from bark from the paper mulberry tree. 

Music 

Traditional music  

National anthem

Pollution song 

National anthem

Somewhere over the rainbow

National anthem 

Building 

Leaning tower of pisa

Colosseum 

Doges palace 

Sun city resort 

The palace of the lost city 

Cape town city hall

Museum of samoa

Talofa inn

Aga reef resort 

History 

Italy originally was rome but then julius caesar was murdered and the fall of rome had happen then after that italy was finally called italy and a few years later they had a triple alliance with france and britain they participated in world war one and in world war two 

People believe that the first modern day humans inhabited africa after the south african war  South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 

For many Samoans, Christianity and Fa'a Samoa are interwoven. In 1899 after years of civil war, the islands of the Samoan archipelago were divided.

 

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