Today we had our wasa wasa workshop. It was so fun. We did it together with group 5. For the first 4 classes we did drumming on african drums. We learnt lots of different rhythms and put them together into a song for the other group to dance to. It was really fun and loud. Two people had bass drums and two people had soprano drums. I just had a normal one (i chose the orange one because its one of my favourite colours) All the lads kinda messed though and banged the drums wrecklessly but I still enjoyed it. I don't think I'd personally learn this instrument in the future.
For our afternoon classes we did african dancing. This was really fun because it's not strict and straight like irish dance or anything, its just flowing and free. We learnt different moves and watched some videos of people doing these dances. We then were put into groups to make up our own dance. I was kind of the leader of my group and put together the moves for the others to follow. The lads were very bad at the timing but we managed to put something together for the end of the day.
For the last class our two groups came together in the balcony to put together the drumming and the dancing. This was the funnest part. Each group showed off our dances and everybody was having fun. It worked really well together. I loved this workshop but I don't know when I would actually use african dancing in real life, I don't really plan on traveling to Africa anytime soon, but its a fun dance to know.
Soprano and bass drummers
The drum I used
Rebeca drumming
Me drumming
Dancing
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