Music in My Ears

 

Everyone appears to have enjoyed the concert and get-together today, or least I did. It is a combination of music performances from various countries.

This is called Hammer Dulcimer.  Chinese have a similar version.  And I remember well that surprisingly I ran into a group of young Chinese performing at the streetside of the Quay Area in Sydney, Australia.  One was playing Dulcimer, the other, Chinese flute.  In contrast, kids in Chicago banged on the bottom side of plastic buckets as if they were drums.  Many roads lead to Rome, I suppose.
 
 

Lovely voices filled the room with German Songs, as if we were cradled back in the movie Sound of Music again.

Ok, so where are my beer and bratswursts?
The answer could have been: no bratswursts, but the blue plate special today's is Witchty Grubs and Roo.  In simple culinary terms, they are insect larvae and kangaroo meat-- common bush men' food in Australia.
The next performance was Digeridoo; the Australia aboriginal bush men music instrument.  The performer even practiced on modern plumbing pipes.  That gets to show if you are desperate, water pipes will do; if you are really hungry, grubs would do too.  Actually, in western world, it is easy to find plumbing pipes, but difficult to find Witchty Grubs.  I even tracked all the way to Cairns of Australia, there were no grubs on the menus.

There was also a Koto performance, we sang Japanese songs, and even speeches was given by foreigners on their viewpoints of Japan.  I was the only foreigner in my group, it was by default, but not by choice, that I went through that hair raising experience of delivering my speech in Japanese.

My speech would have been more comprehensible if I could convince them that I was afterall speaking in the Australian aboriginal dialect.  Anthony-san, by now, you would have been smiling from ear lobe to ear lobe, if not laughing out loud....

Where is that German lager when you need one to calm the nerve ???  I would even eat grubs if they have the same effect.


 All and all, w have lot's of fun!


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