As surreal experiences go, yesterday's has to be up there with the best. I had the pleasure of attending a Raleigh opening in a tiny little place called
Sosondoton. The lovely man with the pink ribbon below is none other than the Minister for Youth & Culture and he is proudly opening a gravity water system that is bringing clean water into the village for the first time.
It was an absolutely fantastic day. The villagers were so smiley and the kids (yes I know I hate kids) were all dressed up in their Sunday best singing their little hearts out. There was lots of back slapping, hand
shaking and general smiling to be done by all. The Raleigh kids (sorry - young people) got to dress up and take part in
bamboo dancing and Malay singing which was
atrocious and hilarious at the same time but the
true highlight of the day came when the villagers rolled out their very own
Karaoke machine!!!! After a LOT of bad
Malay singing the locals finally got bored of entertaining us and let us have free reign on the mics. Unfortunately for them one of the clever little
Raleighites worked out how to hook my
ipod up to the
Karaoke machine - and you all know how bad my taste in music is. We decided that the only song we all knew the words - and actions - to was YMCA by the village people so we took to the stage to strut our funky stuff. Naturally we went down a storm and had the
real village pe
ople in hysterics. Then the next track came on before we had time to turn the machine off. Well, I have never seen such an instant reaction to a song in my life. Within the opening few bars of 'In the Navy' by the Village People, the older menfolk had skulked onto the
dance floor and were twisting and pointing like they were having a collective fit. It was absolutely bizarre - they loved it!!!! Suffice to say the rest of my
ipod repertoire went down a storm and the night aptly ended with a
stirling rendition of locals and
Raleighites jointly belting out Oasis classic Don't Loo
k back in Anger. All that the night was missing was a leg kicking finale of New York New York !!
As surreal experiences go, yesterday's has to be up there with the best. I had the pleasure of attending a Raleigh opening in a tiny little place called Sosondoton. The lovely man with the pink ribbon below is none other than the Minister for Youth & Culture and he is proudly opening a gravity water system that is bringing clean water into the village for the first time.
shaking and general smiling to be done by all. The Raleigh kids (sorry - young people) got to dress up and take part in bamboo dancing and Malay singing which was atrocious and hilarious at the same time but the true highlight of the day came when the villagers rolled out their very own Karaoke machine!!!! After a LOT of bad Malay singing the locals finally got bored of entertaining us and let us have free reign on the mics. Unfortunately for them one of the clever little Raleighites worked out how to hook my ipod up to the Karaoke machine - and you all know how bad my taste in music is. We decided that the only song we all knew the words - and actions - to was YMCA by the village people so we took to the stage to strut our funky stuff. Naturally we went down a storm and had the real village pe
ople in hysterics. Then the next track came on before we had time to turn the machine off. Well, I have never seen such an instant reaction to a song in my life. Within the opening few bars of 'In the Navy' by the Village People, the older menfolk had skulked onto the dance floor and were twisting and pointing like they were having a collective fit. It was absolutely bizarre - they loved it!!!! Suffice to say the rest of my ipod repertoire went down a storm and the night aptly ended with a stirling rendition of locals and Raleighites jointly belting out Oasis classic Don't Loo
k back in Anger. All that the night was missing was a leg kicking finale of New York New York !!
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