Electric Lib

Music

Today I had the wonderful pleasure of seeing four men from Rwanda perform at our school. They sang and danced and played various instruments, it was really awesome. Reminded me of my good old days at various dance camps trying to do African dance. Anyhow, that made me think of how much I like music and how last year I was pestering my parents about taking tabla lessons (an Indian drum). I was really enthusiastic about it until I forgot about it. This triggered my memory though, and now I want to play the drums, some African drum, or the tabla or something. I just suggested it to my dad and he pulled his usual dad trick: suggested that I play the piano.

Back when I was about... oh in second grade, I really wanted to play the violin (probably mainly because Abra did). But my dad used a tricky trick and said "it would probably be better to play the piano so you can learn to read music." Little did I know he was merely suggesting it because we already had a piano. Then again, that's when I was in my quitting phase, so I'd understand not wanting to get me something that I would quit right away (some losers - like my friends - might try to tell you I still am in my quitting phase, and then they'd bring up my brief working days at Angeleno's and then I'd have to slap them). Now back to music. So anyways, hey dad if you had let me play the violin maybe I could have gone to Carnegie hall too. Haha. No just kidding, I'd rather go to Rwanda right now and do some African dancing!

On a more somber note, I'll also mention that there were some Rwandan speakers who talked about the genocide that took place there in 1994, which was very sad. Anyways, the whole deal made my school day about a million times more interesting, and obviously triggered new Lib interests!

Yay, I finally found a cool link that Josh doesn't have (yet)! Check it out! Posted by lib at October 4, 2004 08:24 PM