French students are preparing for their fourth-quarter project, Kermesse, that will take place in the auditorium April 19. 

“I‘m doing a rap song with [sophomore] Willow King, [freshman] Ava Francisco and [freshman] Samiya Neely,” freshman and French 3 student Luna Stieber said. “Me and my group are singing about making money but in bad ways, such as scamming, robbing, pickpocketing and hacking. The song is just to say that it is still happening and that people still do it and that it’s wrong.”

French 3 students are supposed to write and memorize their original songs with multiple verses, choreography and costumes.

“I’m learning my lines and trying to figure out how to get the message across, along with many other things like trying to figure out what I will be wearing and all the dance moves that go in with the song,” Stieber said. “There are just a lot of small things that I’m trying to figure out.”

Anyone can watch Kermesse. 

“Performing in front of everyone always makes me nervous, but I think I‘ll be fine if everyone knows their lines and knows what they are doing; I also trust my group and what they are doing,” Stieber said.

The French students have had more than a month to work on their songs. 

“We already have written the song during class,” freshman and French 3 student Kyra Miller said. “We have been given the majority of the time to prepare other than putting together costumes.”

Miller and her group will be performing a political song. 

“The meaning behind the song, if you can understand it, is the dark side of politics, such as tax evasion, underpaid teachers, etc.,” Miller said. “The group’s decision to choose this was, [French teacher Elena Khlyabich] is always telling us to be interesting, and I thought, ‘What’s more interesting and controversial than politics?’” 

By Samiya Neely