Look at the fatso in the corner!!
Look at the fatso in the corner!!
Everyone had a great time in the circle. We had a few sticks broken... some water containers craked... And we had one lost tamborine... sad. This was a fun drumcircle and the biggest circle I have ever done in my life!! Hope to do another one.
Today was such a fun and uh.... horsey day.. :p
Pulling out someone to play.
Then I facilitated again. I made everyone stop and pulled out a few people to play. Then everyone play agian.
My dad facilitated to... They all liked what my dad did... He made the beat really soft... and stoped it by clenching his fist so as if the beat was in his hand. Then he threw an imaginary thing into the air and made everyone do a rumble (drumroll). Everyone laughed....
Dad threw imaginary something into the air... (everyone smiling)
When that was over... everyone was having to much fun to stop. But sorry... they had to leave... This was one of the best public circles we have done yet... really had a lot of fun... And Serena C was there to!! :P Got to meet her and get her autograph... yay!!
Me marking the pulse
Dad facilitating
Hah... there we are... The logo..... Now lemme ask you.. how many arrows do you see?? 4... nope. 6? nope... Answer is 8.. hehe... If you don't see 8 arrows.. look at the arrows pointing out (white arrows) and the ones pointing in (black arrows)... I don't really get what the logo means.. but its something like Which came first? The chicken or the egg...?? Do the drummers accompany the dancers or do the dancers accompany the drummers?? The answer is YES. If you get the meaning.. good. We picked up the shirts from this guy who makes them. (duh). Me and my dad went back home and we eagerly took out a shirt each .. My dad got his on first.. I was lazy to put mine on... They seriously look great... the only problem was, the back of the shirt. My dad gave the guy last years T-shirt as a model for this years shirt. And when my dad asked me to read the back of the T-shirt what it said, it said Drum Circle facilitators training, Malaysia 2006. All of a sudden my dad's happy expression was so shocked... "does it really say 2006??????" "yeah dad" and we both had the same word in our heads "SHUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" My dad called the guy and asked for all the shirts re-ordered... Terrible.. haiz... those really looked great, just for that silly mistake my dad has to re-order all 20-30-40 something shirts... and He'll have to mail it to all the participants because they won't be done for a week.. haiya.. terrible, terrible, terrible..
Julia on the hammok
Sunita on the hammokThen we went back to the river.....
The Kenyan's, South Africans and Sunita's parents left during the afternoon today.. Sunita's parents left at night. Heres a pic of everybody outside the Bamboo Palace...
Dinner we had at the Bamboo Palace. Sunita's parents left after dinner.
This trip to KKB was gonna be a large group, even our host, Antares, that I've known since I was 4 years old said my mom was crazy because this group had a total of 16 people.. Antares was like "16?? CRAZY!!".. but still, 16 people went. We had 4 South Africans, 5 Kenyans, 1 Spanish, 1 Korean, 2 Chinese, 1 British and 2 mix (Sunita and me).. so 16 poeple. 3 cars. My mom was like planing a trip to an urban jungle... Sunita's dad's van was filled up with what my mom was bringing.... So at the back seat of the van.... me and Sunita were seperated by a whole pile of stuff.... Sunita's dad installed walkie-talkies in 2 cars.... not 3. Sunita and me were talking to the 4 Kenyan girls though the walkie-talkie.
So... we went to the Magick River.. A river near our camping ground..... After the rain... the river was COLD......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lunch was great.. We had South African food.. homecooked by the South Africans... The chicken dish was OUT OF THIS WORLD..WHOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Then we went back to the river....... and it rained again......
Dinner was good...
I jammed on the guitar while Antares played his flute... Another guy called Richard..... He played one on Antares's Djembe.. We slept at 12.00. My tent was practically leaking from all the rain that afternoon so Sunita and me cleaned it out..
yea... for about 5 minutes...