Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Monthly Segment: What i miss this month while in Mongolia - German carnival/drinking songs

Its now 21 months since i flew to Mongolia. Thats the longest ive ever not been to a German festival since 2005, and it also means that i miss this annoyingly catchy song so i decided to show the English languages roots by teaching "Viva Colonia" to my students.(For the record English was basically German with French used for higher class words because of the aristocracy. I Know that sounds dumbed down but i swear thats a pretty accurate statement)

The video shows me teaching the song with terribly written German and then Hohner is below playing it. Im sorry i dont have any shots of the kids, but we just started to learn the song and i needed to walk them through it so i couldn't play with my computer camera that much.

Ill spend tomorrow getting them to practice this song too. I should feel bad teaching them a song that encourages drinking, but then again "Yankee Doodle Dandee" was a drinking song too. Next year for my next Peace Corps service ill teach "Cowboy und Indianier" by Olaf Henning! I am less than 2 weeks away from Starkbierfest!!!!!!!

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