I have some wonderful images to post but the internet cafe that i'm at wont support my flash disk so we will have to wait... Sorry.
Some things have worked out quite well and other things have failed miserably. I did get to adjudacate in a national choir competition. It was about 40 choirs singing western, african, and gospel music. It was quite an earful but a very intereting experience. Right now I'm finshing a piece that I was commissioned to write for the Twelve Apostles Church national assembly that happens next week. Its one of those deals where the choir is already rehersing the begining and the end is still being written. They only asked me to write something for them 5 days before they wanted to reherse! The audience will be well over 5,000 when they pergorm the piece. We are renting out a whole stadium...
The text for the work comes from 1 Cor. 13:
Love is patient and kind, Love is never angry or spiteful...
People in South Africa use the word 'love' 5 min. after they meet you. That's not love.
I thought that it wold be a good text to set for SA. Its in Zulu, Setswana, and Xhosa. I'll post it when I get a recording.
My music classes failed entirely though. Its quite sad, I did quite a bit of prepatory work back in the states to make these classes the best I could. Well, thats africa. I have lived here long enough to know thats how these things go.
I'm going to try and find a different internet cafe that can take my flash disc or I'll put the images on CD and do it that way.
Peace.
About Me
- Michael
- I graduated college (The Hartt School at the University of Hartford) with a degree in music composition. Then I joined the Peace Corps. I worked in HIV/AIDS in The Republic of Botswana (for the geographically challenged that's in southern Africa) which changed everything. Now I'm to Tulane for graduate work in Public Health and Infectious Diseases. Life is funny that way.
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Water Colour by a freind of mine: The Zambian Painter Adam Mwansa
1 comment:
Hey TG this is probably due to the way that your flash key (aka USB Key, aka Memory Stick) is formatted. My guess is that you formatted it using the macintosh HFS+ file system and that they have good old NTFS windows machines. Which although HFS+ doesn't play nice with other file systems at least MAC offeres UFS. Anyway, this is my guess. I'll try to locate a utility so you can set the disk to FAT32 which can be read by Linux, Windows, and MAC. It has some security concerns but it's not like this is a network drive. Anyway, if I'm totally wrong and your key is in FAT let me know. The reason that burning to CD works is that CDs use a universal file system called ISO 9660 so no matter what system you burn them on, blah blah blah just about any CD reader can read them. There are some exceptions that I won't bore you with.
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