Feb 20, 2009

So this afternoon, I stopped in at Flash, our Friday afternoon drop-in at church. And we're just chillin' in the Downtown Centre when Edward, an eccentric kid to say the least, who lives for theatre starts to tell us about some of the warm up exercises artsy people might use before a production. The other kids reckoned it would be better if he got up and demonstrated.

So Edward takes centre stage and raises his arms in a rocket ship kinda shape.

"ALL BANANA'S UNITE.....peel banana, peel peel banana...mash banana, mash mash banana...shake banana, shake shake banana...".

It's a camp song so y'all might not understand the comedy. But you don't sing camp songs in Northern Ireland. You're likely to get shot or get your car keyed or at the very least, laughed at extensively for the rest of your like. Of course I recognised the song but the others certainly did not, and mix the words up with the actions, sex it up a little and watch Edward perform......it brought people to tears.

It was funny, but what will be even funnier is when I get to watch all of them sing the banana song with actions plus many other songs at summer camp in Toronto this July. (Mental Note: Bring Camcorder)

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