Karaoke Party

The two-month program sponsored a karaoke party on Tuesday, July 7 (Tanabata Day) where the six-month participants were invited also (actually the six-month program teacher-advisors were present and assisted with the set-up and clean-up). The party actually turned into a cultural show. We saw two guitar playing with singing performances, one Bali dance, piano-playing with singing, two former Soviet Union countries' dances, and a singing (opera-voice) performance by another former Soviet Union country participant. We the students then made all the teachers karaoke. The four (two-month program) teachers sang one song, and the two six-month program teachers sang together (the third one was not feeling well). Saigoto sang Enrique Iglesia's "Bailamos" and "Hero," which got the professional dancers dancing while he sang. During "Bailamos," about one-half to two-third of everyone made a dancing train(?). You can see pictures on my picasa.

Three more of us karaoked. I sang a Taiwanese song after more than half of people already left, because it was past time. I think I did fine then. I was not bad like when I tried an anime song at the beginning of the karaoke party (it was before everyone was there and before anyone began to perform).