Sunday, March 11, 2012

A Birthday Celebration

  We have an English medium school near us--probably the nicest in our city with several hundred students from pre-school through age 17.
I recently went there and met the principal,  a wonderful lady committed to quality education.  When she found out that John is a singer of Tagore she asked if he can sing at their upcoming 'Birthday Celebration.'  
  Red and yellow are favorite colors of celebrations--the brighter the better.
 The hall filled with students, age 3 up to 17, seated on the floor.  Parents and teachers were behind them on chairs,  calling out the useless "shhhhh!"  as the roar of voices continued through each song and speech.
                     

They loved John's rendition of "When on This Path My Footprints No Longer Fall".  

These girls were selected for the ceremonial cutting of the cake.



More student singers performed, and then...
A student rock band started singing,  a mosh pit formed,  and some rather restrained  Bollywood dancing began.A wonderfully joyful celebration.
 Happy Birthday, Paramount.  And thank you for including us!

1 comment:

  1. First of all, I am so impressed by reading your story, reading you affection towards my motherland Bangladesh. Be honest with you, I never seen anyone in my life (23years) any foreigners/bideshi to fall in love with my country like you. It amazed me, the way you discover my country, it seems there is not much things u didn't explore, from river to rickshaw, from monsoon to mountain, our festival, our music, people you've seen and describe everything. It is an amazing blog, and more amazing are you and your family :).....I will be very happy u, if u can give me ur email address, or phone number or Facebook or whatever, where I can contact with u, becoz I want to know a little more about your experience from your own words. Thanks again for this awesome blog :)

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