Wednesday, August 24, 2011

I am in Hogwartz for sure!

Tonight is the first official concert. We are at the South African College School and performing a wonderful lineup, which will include the San Peoples "The Click Song". The San or Bushmen are the folks you saw in "The God's Must Be Crazy." And "The Click Song" is actually called Qongqothwane and was sung by the famous Miriam Makeba.
Today, in order to get us prepared, we visited the !Khwa ttu (the ! refers to the click sound). The !Khwa ttu is where we participated in a guided tour, understood the use for the Fynbos plant, and visited a traditional San village. After our excursion we ate a meal of Eland (the local big animal)Babooti, rice, and a crispy tortilla like thing... Delicious! (Pictures to come later).
So now we are in the auditorium of the school and it reminds me of Hogwartz because of the four houses shown in the stain glass windows of the hall. And the have a wicked tiled floor in the foyer that I can run-n-slide all the way across. (Video of that to come). Well ttyl for now, gotta go sell CD's.
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