Thanks by the way, dear friends who have logged into my blog and given me precious tips about how to organise my song-pages. I will try to imply your good advises one of these days. But now: SLEEP!
On this moment my thoughts go to all the Valborg-celebrators in Uppsala. Valborg is a Spring celebration, especially popular and special in Uppsala, where I have lived 8 years of my youth. On my remote island in the north we lit fires, but this Valborg-activity was too mainstream for the hard-core Valborg-celebrators of Uppsala. For them nothing would do except funny hats (all taken on at the same time after having waved with them for a while) champagne-gallop (emphasis on champagne), choir song, proms, rafting in the very humble river Fyrisån etc. Very absurd, just like any folklore tradition! I can't say I miss it a lot, because I was hardly a part of it while living there... hm... I might write more about this later.
Thanks by the way, dear friends who have logged into my blog and given me precious tips about how to organise my song-pages. I will try to imply your good advises one of these days. But now: SLEEP!
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I'm just home from another Swedish class with my students from the first year. I'm always happy going to this class. What a privilege to teach a group of motivated and really nice students. I'm truly thankful for this school where I may work, teaching my mother tongue, a school with vision with colleagues who are PROUD to be teachers! My little unique contribution is teaching languages through singing. To quote Lady Gaga (I'm sure this is the first and last time I'll quote her in this blog!) I'm born this way: singing. Music is my weapon and I sense that it also works in class. My dear colleague can't understand how I can have time to sing so much in class. The answer is: it isn's something pasted to the program - it's an integrated part of it. I just BELIEVE in it, you know. I sing existing songs, I change existing songs for my purposes (a song with the title Do you like me? was changed into Did you like me? for the introduction of past tense today. The sad title inspired me to change the melody from major to minor too : ) and write my own about going to the shop, ask someone how they are, present oneself... I used to think that I was an intellectual person, but when I stand there in front of my class with the guitar and feel they really like it and that they are learning something, I know THIS is my calling. THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS!!!!!!
Hello world! Welcome to my frog blog. I will try to amuse you with my music and my texts. I'm Batty and you can read some about me under "Who is the frog blogger?" I have had a lovely day today with the sun shining here in Belgium! A friend and I hang out with her 2-year-old daughter in the garden and in the park on the other side of the road. I'm glad there are people with 2-year-olds around me, as I don't have any myself. And I think the little girl appreciated my company two, because she gave me two "dikke kussen" ("FAT KISSES") beyond the one prescribed by her mum! The morning, though, was spent making mending a recording of a song I wrote together with Rana, a very good friend of mine who is a gifted text-writer. I came off with the music and she wrote the lyrics and after some to's and fro's this is the result. Enjoy this ad-hoc-version. I hope to make a really good recording later this year (apart from better sound quality I'm looking forward to having more different singers and a better violing player than myself). Pls comment and say what you think about it! All feed-back is welcome! |
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