Today we were at West Lakes Academy for the second time. We all met up in the main entrance at 8:30 and everyone was happy to see each other. We went through to the theatre to begin our music culture exchange. We started with traditional Tanzania songs learning the tunes and dances and then attempting to sing along. We also learnt the meanings and stories behind the songs and translated and sang some in English too.
We were also shown the type of dancing that is popular in Tanzania at the moment and tried (badly) to have a go as well but it was hard. Then it was our turn to show them some of our dances like the Macarena and Cha Cha slide and also a more traditional song which we had musicians from the group playing.
We learnt some more Tanzanian songs one of which had a fake wedding in. The Tanzanian’s also taught us a complicated dance that took us a while to grasp.
We spent lunch chatting and the girls showed us how to do a dance/game with our feet. We then put on kangas to perform what we had learnt as a group of Tanzumbrians for some primary schools. We got some of them involved and they asked questions and some of the Tanzanian’s did some gymnastics with past Cumbrian’s showing something they had learned in Tanzania. After a fun day of dancing we were very tired and ready to go home but had great fun and got to know each other even better.
Alice Rae
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