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After our reading and writing club meeting yesterday, the P5 and P6 girls walked me to my house, and they love to carry my things for me. I usually have a pen, some books and a piece of cloth to sit on the grass with. They divvy out my goods, then "escort" me home.
At the door they asked me if i would play JUST ONE song, PLEASE ARISTA?
I said, "just one?"
YES, JUST ONE!
So i brought out the guitar and played many songs, including "Oh Susanna", "Bread and Butter" and some Church songs. (Bread and Butter is a popular and great song by the Ugandan duo sensation Radio and Weasel.)
After playing "Oh Susanna" a coupla times, they had memorized the refrain. So there was this group of primary girls singing at the top of their lungs, Oh Susanna, dont you cry for me, for i come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee...
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Celeste! Its beautiful, and the image brings joy to me all the way in Ngora. I think you are onto something. How much silly worry we have caused ourselves when the solution was right there before us. miss you and cant wait to see you soon chica!
ReplyDeleteMusic is a great way to build "community". Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteOh little Leste, dont you cry for me, for i come from Texas with a guitar for you so you can sing for me...
ReplyDeletelove you big sister!
Im in North Carolina, we have our race tomorrow. I will run with you and for you
oh, i wish blogs had sound!
ReplyDeletegreat picture! looks as if everyone was happy where they were, and who they were with.
not surprising~
how much fun it must have been for the students, and you!
monica would probably agree in the value of 'breaking out' in song any time of day~
try -do re mi- next time :)
have a song filled week!
con tanto carino, be good