Monday 9 June 2014

Diverbo day 2

We are all more comfortable with each other and starting to get to know everyone's names. Today it is the same schedule but with some group discussions and two and two discussions. Everyone has a lot of fun.  We are all keen on walking and talking so several people end up sunburnt despite the cool breeze.
 We have a presentation from Jimmy about his stay in Austria which he delivers with the aplomb of a stand up comic. He is a very entertaining young man.  We are all eating well, too well but I am trying to eat less and light.  We all tend to walk and talk so I hope that balances out the delicious food.
Today is another round of people with whom I haven't yet had one to ones or Anglos with whom  I have yet to spend time.
Some of the personalities are rather idiosyncratic to say the least but we are all getting along well.
This evening we had the quiemado experience which was huge fun. It is a drink made with aroja liqueur and spices like gluewein then flamed for some time till a lot of the alcohol is  burnt off. The  drink is accompanied by an incantation by three witches, (Ann, Marge and  Kitty) which was hilarious. 
The ritual for making the Quimado
The three withes making the spell
We have also been warned to prepare a song, that represents our country. Arrgh! There are only three Aussies and Suzanne is not one to stay up after the dinner which was already late for her. That leaves Capri and I to sing. Oh well you can't go wrong with Waltzing Matilda and we manged a good rendition. The Americans sing Yankee Doodle Dandy and there are about ten of them. The Canadians sing the silver geese(?)with actions which was very funny and then the English did Look on the bright side from Life of Brian. We all sang along with the chorus.  The two Kiwis do the Maori love song very well with all the hand actions. Capri is an Indian/Aussie so she also contributed an Indian dance and song,  Furley did a Jamaican, Bob Marley, Don't worry 

and The Spanish did a rendition of something I didn't recognise. Sara Z did the Peruvian national anthem. We were all having a great time and after  Jez the MC and Marco the program planner completed their songs we adjourned to the bar for dancing and more refreshments. I called it quits at 1:00 pm.

1 comment:

  1. The spanish song is a student one. Our universities have bands (it's simple way to degine them) called TUNA. The tunas ares formed by students and are really funny people. And "Clavelitos" is the most famous song.

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