Year 9 Italian Excursion

On Friday 6th of September, students in Year 9 studying Italian were given the wonderful opportunity to explore Lygon Street, located in Carlton and Mediterranean Wholesalers in Brunswick. We were given a booklet that contained questions. We searched for locations in Lygon Street and products in the supermarket that would give us clues in order to answer all our questions.

In Lygon Street, we discovered that there was a large Italian influence over many of the restaurants, cafes, and shops. We learned that University Cafe was opened in 1950, making it one of the oldest “Espresso Bars” in Melbourne. After answering all the relevant questions, we were given some time to explore some more or roam around to purchase anything that we wanted to.

After finishing off at Lygon Street, we arrived at Mediterranean Wholesalers, a supermarket offering an enormous variety of Italian products. We found a lot of imported items from Italy such as cured meats, vegetables, pasta, candied fruits, cheeses, biscuits, cleaning products, household products and beverages. We even found squid ink pasta! Amazing!!

Upon leaving the store, we were each given a pack of delicious wafers by the welcoming staff at the supermarket. A huge thank you to Ms Gallo, Ms Urban, Ms Diep and Ms Timlin for organising and accompanying us on the excursion.

Gloria Le

Year 9 Italian Student

Dante Alighieri Italian Poetry Competition 2019

3rd Place Winner Poetry Recitation Competition

Year 10 Non – Italian Section

On Friday night, 6th September, the Dante Alighieri Society Melbourne held its annual Poetry Competition Presentation of Awards night at Melbourne University. I would like to congratulate Sarah Pachi, who competed against students from many other schools all over Victoria, during the Poetry Competition in June this year. Sarah was awarded with a 3rd place at the Finals, for Year 10, for reciting her poem Sonetto XXVI – Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri.

Tanti Auguri from the Languages Faculty.

Liliana Gallo, Learning Area leader - Languages

Year 9 Indonesian Excursion

On Friday the 6th of September, the year 9 Indonesian class participated in an all day incursion about Indonesia. Activities on this incursion included dancing, dressing up, cooking and viewing an Indonesian film. My class watched a film called ‘Single’; a movie about an Indonesian boy named Ebi who struggles to find love. Eventually he meets a girl named Angel and they develop a close friendship and fall in love.

We were taught an Indonesian dance by Ibu Maria who is from the Indonesian island of Java. Her Indonesian dance was beautiful and we all had lots of fun learning traditional Indonesian movements using our hands and fingers. Ibu Maria also brought traditional Indonesian garments for us to wear. I had the opportunity to wear a white scarf with golden sparkles. At the end of the session, Ibu Maria performed a dance for us. Her movements were inspired by peacocks. She wore a red outfit with a flowery peacock headpiece and cape-like wings. I thought the dance was very impressive as it represented the importance of animals such as the peacock in influencing traditional Indonesian style of dancing.

Another activity that we participated in was Indonesian cooking. We used Ibu Cosentino’s recipe and cooked Mie goreng tempeh. We used ingredients such as tempeh, noodles, garlic, onions and asian vegetables such as wombok and spring onions. We also added Kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) that is very popular and used daily in Indonesian cooking. In the end, the Mie goreng that I made tasted very delicious. It was the first time that I’ve eaten tempeh (soy beans) and I really enjoyed the taste and texture. We served the mie goreng with Krupuk udang (prawn crackers).

Sharna Trinh

Year 9 Indonesian Student

Language Perfect World Chamionships 2019 Results

Buongiorno and Halo Students, Staff and Parents,

Congratulations to all the participants in the Language Perfect World Championships 2019!! This competition was held from 27th August – 3rd September. It was exciting to see many students engage in this Language learning opportunity! We have some very competitive students amongst us!! I am extremely proud to announce the winners of this competition!! Here are the top 10 schools in the world:

Benowa State High School - Users 1021 Score, 953,746 points

McKinnon Secondary College - Users 2427 Score, 810,547 points

Missian Heights Junior College - Users 907, Score 630,645 points

Killester College - Users 576, Score 621,337 points

Cashmere High School - Users 954, Score 604,386 points

Perth Modern School - Users 1029, Score 461,810 points

Santa Sabina College - Users 401, Score 436,279 points

Amaroo School - Users 460, Score 408,352 points

North Sydney Girls' High School - Users 304, Score 399,272 points

Abbotsleigh School for Girls - Users 593, Score 370,036 points

We achieved 4th place overall in the world

We achieved 3rd overall in Australia

We achieved 2nd overall in Victoria

We achieved 1st overall for Indonesian

We achieved 2nd overall for Italian

We achieved 1st overall for Indonesian & Italian in Victoria

We had many award winners in all categories!

As a school we answered 1, 576, 255 questions and we earned 621, 337 points.

Here are the results for each category:

Elite: 10, 000+ points: 28 students

Emerald: 5, 000 points: 13 students

Gold: 3, 000 points: 13 students

Silver: 2, 000 points: 22 students

Bronze: 1, 000 points: 52 students

Credit: 500 points: 54 students

Here is a list of Killester's 28 Elite Award Winners:

28 Lorraine Becker (443rd 10,000)

27 Leanne Nguyen (433rd 10,001)

26 Victoria Lay (419th 10,003)

25 Simone Dunker (399th 10,008)

24 Alisa Kong (393rd 10,010)

23 Jennifer Vo (384th 10,015)

22 Lucinda Tran (342nd 10,055)

21 Tina Hoang (330th 10,076)

20 Josephine Lau (321st 10,088)

19 Mahekpreet Dhillon (317th 10,093)

18 Candice Chan Yai Ching (316th 10,094)

17 Natalie Te (315th 10,094)

16 Matisse Sedita (309th 10,101)

15 Vanessa Lin (308th 10,101)

14 Tayla Cornell (306th 1,0101)

13 Harleen Kaur (297th 10,125)

12 San Nhi Chung (293rd 10,143)

11 Liz Chy (266th 10,210)

10 Andrea Thomas (222nd 10,423)

9 Cindy Tran (198th 10,686)

8 Gina Lam (157th 11,111)

7 Monique Huynh (114th 11,666)

6 Anna Eam (108th 11,830)

5 Jeronie Lim (72nd 13,579)

Here are our to four students and their final scores and rankings:

4th Christie Giang (65th 14,000)

3rd Melinda Lao (41st 16,572)

2nd Leah Tea (37th 17,299)

1st place winner Charleen Ngo (22nd 21,729)

A huge congratulations goes to these wonderful girls on their fantastic effort!! Here is some recent feedback from our students on the usefulness of Language Perfect:

Nina Tabakovic (learning Italian): "great fun in the language championship competition"
Anugraha Jogi (learning italian): "Education perfect isvery fun and lets me remember my words"
Jeanette Nguyen (learning Italian): "it is fun, and we get to learn a language easier and faster by making mistakes, and learning from them."
Tharvy Soth (learning Indonesian): "it helps me memorise things."
Bikila Biju Jayakumari (learning Indonesian): "I think education perfect helps you learn".

Well done girls and we look forward to students' continued enthusiasm and participation in next years Language Perfect World Championships!!

...... as Federico Fellini would say:

'A different language is a different vision of life'.

Liliana Gallo

Languages Learning Area Leader

Prayer