A few years back, I was talking to the then Principal at my school, sort of complaining (in a joking way)that there were no festivities for Italians here in CA, and yet many many Mexican festivities. I told him that I was protesting and that we need to have an Italian celebration (he was half Italian).

So....We officially celebrated Columbus Day at school. There were four Italians in the office. We all bought food for everyone on Columbus Day. I made canoli and the other ladies and I went to the Italian Deli and purchased snacks. We even bought "proud to be Italain" shirts for all of us and took a picture of the four of us. None of us knew Italian fluently, but he managaged to start the morning announcments on the PA in Italian. It was fun. \:\)

TIS

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