“My First Encounter with African Culture - Music and Dance"

          I was interesting of my first encounter with African Culture. As you all know, African have a unique voice to sing their songs. I always think African sings a song can hold all the audience in that time, it is amazing.

           Last week, I had a good chanced to give me knew more about African Culture like music and dance. A man come from Africa, he taught our form 5 students how to speak Africa language, song and dance. The African was greeted with loud applause. In the beginning, the African made us to do some exercise of our hands and he was sure our hands were relaxed. The African taught us correct gesture to play an African drumming. When Africa music started, the African showed him ability to play an African drumming and dance. Sometimes he sang to the African drumming and he invited some form 5 students together dancing in that movement.

The African danced in my school, he looked so funny. It is because he danced he would like to open his hands, I saw his palm was almond color and his body was black color. It was my first time to understand the African body. We were not enough the African drumming, so that we were one by one to play the African drumming. I chose a small size of the African drumming, I played four or five times, it was good to try the African drumming. I watched our students were happiness, and I listened to a lot of laugh voice mix African music in the school.

Some students joined the African teacher together to perform the African drumming, I enjoyed their showed, and it was really well. The African teacher started to find our school teacher to join us together, but our school teachers were very rushed and ran away to the door. Suddenly, our school principal came back to school. A few students went to invite the principal, the principal was glad to play the African drumming. We were so happy to see the principal played the African drumming and she was nice. Another school teacher called Mr. Wu. He was caught by the African teacher, and the African teacher made him danced. He was a little embarrassed to dance alone but finally he did very well. We were cheerful to finish the African Culture activity, we played the African drumming and learned some Africa language.