Club Italia has been busy this term, organising socials and events to introduce both Freshers and Erasmus students to Italian at Bristol. We had a very successful Freshers' Fair (despite some last-minute decorating) and ended up with over 250 new people to add to the mailing list.
It is also worth mentioning the continuation of the parenting scheme throughout the department, whereby two second or fourth years are given a group of first years to guide through the academic and social aspects of Bristol University. For the scheme to be truly effective, we had to make sure that all parents and children were introduced. This may seem obvious but it has not always been organised particularly well in the past!
Deciding that improving the parenting scheme was our main priority, the society organised a welcome evening for the children. “Families” (which often consisted of two mothers and several daughters due to the gender disparity in the School of Modern Languages!) would meet up at a parent's house, have a meal and several drinks. Naturally there were no guidelines for the evening but we imagine a lot of homemade pizza and Pinot Grigio
CLUB ITALIA
by James Freeman
IL DIPARTIMENTO
was involved! Once everyone had eaten and drank their fill, the families descended on the Triangle to enjoy drinks at the Brass Pig and introduce their children to the rite of passage that is A Night At Bunker.
Our second event of the term was the annual Languages Bar Crawl, organised across the entire School of Modern Languages, with all of the various societies participating. We are proud to say that Club Italia was one of only two societies that went all-out and had T-shirts made for the occasion. They were a delightful blue and not at all tight around the neck. Armed to the teeth with said T-shirts – 50 of which we managed to sell – we started at Flipside, formerly known as Papaji’s, with their staggering selection of cocktails which, at two-for-one, were just about affordable.