One of the best 4th parties ever!
Most of my life I've been in another country for (1) my birthday and (2) the 4th of July. I never imagined that one of the best 4th parties I would ever go to would be here in Sarajevo, Bosnia. We had a ton of Americans over to the "Mare's Head" (that's what our neighborhood is called--Kobilja Glava) and really just cooked out and sang songs. Here's why it was so great though: Don Stevens is a new friend here and is talented with many different instruments. With him leading we sang late into the night all kinds of old American traditionals--Battle Hymn of the Republic, Oh Susanna, etc. He made a good point though, if you go to a Bosnian wedding you will find hundreds of people singing word for word all of their traditional songs until 2 in the morning. We couldn't even make it through one verse of each American song! Though we still had fun singing them, we all realized that we should try harder at passing along our own cultural music from generation to generation.
posted by mezgermemo @ 12:11 AM
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