A Funny Thing Happened at 7am

So I had a hard time sleeping the other night bordem probably. The good news is now that my French teacher has left I can focus my attention on making new friends in the community...back on topic. So staring into the darkness or the inside of my eyelids (same view when the moon is not out) I could hear drumming in the distance. Bummed I had not been invied to whatever party at the same time knowing it would go till dawn or so (not that it made a difference I wasn't sleeping).

As the drumming and eventually singing grew closer I got curious. So I was up and trudging down a path in the dark trying to find who was having the good time. The best I could make out was a bunch of kids they came as close as my conessio's parmimater but never entered. The two reasons I didn't try to join them one, I was still in my PJ's and two I'm a bit of a chicken...next time!

Eventually I do fall asleep, and when I roll over it's about 5:30 and no one's up! Miraculously b/c it's a Monday morning and usually someone is pilaying the corn (smahing corn in a giant morter and pestal thud thud thud for hours) I'm excited thinking I can sleep in....wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The #1 wife whom watches over me the most starts calling my name a good distance from my house why she needs to talk to me this early is beyond me...anyway she has to pass my one, open, window to get to the front of my room to see my door is shut which means I'm sleeping or not home. Then she mumbles 'the door is closed' so I'm up but in no mood to talk to anyone.

In my half dazed consiousness I hear some kids in the distance half mumbling kinda singing kinda chanting. I start to wonder if they were practicing the songs from the night before b/c they were obviously younger then the kids I had already heard. Anyway, I wonder why they are not headed to school and insted towards my house...this quickly passes as I start to reconize the tune of this chant-like song. Briefly I wonder if its something I've heard before in other cerimonies in passing or perhaps one of the 3 songs played over and over at the "clubs" here. Then it registers the kids are singing "I live to move it move it, I like to move it move it" In plain English. (and for thouse of you who are not laughing histarically right now it's one line from an old popular song mid 90's I think) Ahhhh Guinea.