September 19-21, 2011
On Monday night I went with Claire, Kelsey, and Olivia to an open mic night. There were musicians, poets, singers, and comedians of which most were locals. I really enjoyed it. It’s nice to do things that make me practice my Spanish and are also cultural experiences. One of the acts was a group of blonde German boys that played flamenco music. There was also this comedian wearing a clown nose and honestly I couldn’t tell you a thing that he was saying. From the reactions of the people around me, I gathered that he wasn’t that funny and that most of his jokes seemed to be off-color. There were these two guys that played the guitar and sang and they were amazing. One of the guys wrote the song they sang for his daughter and it was by far the greatest performance.
So on Wednesday night we went to another bar that we go to pretty frequently. They were having a karaoke night and guess who we saw…. Our blonde German boys from Monday’s open mic night. We were so excited that they were there and approached them. We didn’t know until that moment that they were German and we probably got more excited than we should have about it. Claire and I just started telling them all of the German words we knew. (Ausfahrt, nien, and yaaaaaaaaa)…. Which means exit, no, and yes). Throughout the night we just kept saying these words to them which was probably really bizarre if you put it into context. For example, what would you do if you meant a group of German people that only knew three words of English and they just kept saying them out of context, “ EXIT, YES, NO!” So we talked to them for a while and they said they would sing a karaoke song with us. They had picked some song by The Police and so when we got up on stage this is what they were expecting. HOWEVER, they didn’t know that we had changed the song to Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (the theme song from The Titanic). HAHAHA. It was weak. Those poor German boys. They were good sports about it and it wasn’t a big deal since the words played on the screen anyways. It was really a beautiful yet surreal yet odd moment hearing three German boys sing Celine Dion. I loved it.
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