Playing Guitar in Class

Posted on by Matt Christensen

So yesterday, during Kiswahili class, I performed a song (in Kiswahili) for everybody!  Our teacher, Daktari Mtembo, commissioned me last week to write a melody for the song written on page 78 of our Kiswahili course book.  It was really well received!  He took a video of it and said he was going to put it up on the UDSM website!  Haha!  It is such a great rush of energy and ‘aliveness’ leading people with the guitar to a song you wrote the melody to.  People were actually singing along and had it struck in their heads!  It was great! The song is about eating food because we just started a unit about food.

Here it is in Kiswahili:

Ninakipenda chakula,

Chakula cha asubuhi,

Mayai na mkate,

Jem na siagi,

Chakula chetu kitamu.

Anakipenda chakulam

Chakula cha mchana,

Wali na ugali,

Nyama na mahrage,

Chakula chetu kitamu.

Tunakipenda chakula,

Chakula cha jioni,

Ndizi na samaki,

Mboga na matunda,

Chakula chetu kizuri.

The English translation:

I like the food,

Breakfast,

Eggs and bread,

Jam and butter,

Our food is delicious.

He/she likes the food,

Lunch,

Cooked rice with ‘ugali,’

Meat with beans,

Our food is delicious.

We like the food,

Dinner,

Bananas with fish,

Vegetables with fruits,

Our food is good.

It was so much fun!  It goes to the tune of a piece I wrote on guitar before (D G D G D A D A etc…).

Other presentations today

I was in a group that presented today during human evolution class.  It was about bipedalism and the theories of how it emerged in our early hominin ancestors.  It went well!

Classes here are extremely long and boring.  It is hard to keep concentration.  My only hope is to take vigorously thorough notes.  Otherwise I think that I might fall asleep.

Yesterday I also met my host family, whom I will be staying with in about two weeks.  They seem great! The dinner was fantastic!  With passion fruit juice, cut bananas, delicious potatoes, chicken and rice with beans (and mango hot sauce!).  It was all just so great.  Mama and my brother Adam I met, and Ashley from Washington State, too, my sister. 

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