The Cameroon sun

Wednesday is music class and today there was music. It's a fun time. We are rehearsing for music day at the end of term (which is drwawing even nearer) and we are now fine-tuning our performance. All the wee kids are fascinated by my guitar so new people keep joining the class. They really love it and enjoy singing their wee hearts out.

Today Steven had a new song about welcoming the parents of Jamadianle to graduation day. Quite a nice wee ditty once we finally got to sing it. Steven is a really good teacher but today i began to question his methods when he made them repeat the first line close to one hundred times. I thought man, this guy is a real perfectionist like Phil Spector or someone, i half expected him to pull a gun out he was being so persistent. The line 'our dear parents' began to sound strange after hearing it like a broken record. But i realised it was not just perfection he strived for, but it was the repetition to help the wee dudes remember.

My song 'Cameroon Sun' is fast becoming a classic by the way. Kids even sing it to me on the street. One wee guy even said to me that 'it was the greatest song he had ever heard' Bold praise indeed and i think he deserves an ice-cream. I'll let you judge by the quality of the lyrics. Dylan read on..

"The Cameroon sun rises in the morning,
And with it another day is dawning,
And another day begins in my life today,
Feeling happy because the sun is shining,

And it's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful x3
The Cameroon sun is beautful today,"

Showtime is marching ever nearer and we've got about a 10 minute gig together, complete with the national anthem, homemade shakers, drums and tamborines made by me.

The kids really enjoy it and so do i. Hope it goes well.