Cultural Sharing

With everyone’s minds at ease on the bus ride back from our first house building experience because we could finally get back to our rooms and have a well needed, and of course, well deserved sleep, we were then told that tonight would be the city’s ‘cultural exchange’. Luckily we had pre arranged two songs for us all to learn to sing, so during our bus ride Mr Glover became the choir instructor and we learnt our part of the ‘cultural exchange’. The night was prepared in order for the ENTIRE city to welcome us and to thank us and Habitat for Humanity. This seemed all well and good, until of course, the night turned into an experience I’m sure none of us will forget ! (Especially not Priscilla, what a special 17th birthday for her). After many speeches were made, Ms Tu’s and Daniels being the only one we could understand, the entertainment began. It is safe to say that almost every single person that was there had a shot at ‘open mic night’. From 6 year old girls, to 50 year old men, some of which sang more than twice, and a man with his son who played with fruit on the stage. The biggest highlight of the night was certainly our songs, which certainly could not have been sung without the help from Finlay, and I am 100% positive we will NEVER perform either song in an assembly ! Even though our performance failed, and we listened to 3 hours of music, I can truly say that we did actually have a really fun night !