You'd think we really were castaways with the excitement Sojo had coming home to Bangkok. She ran around the living room taking out every single toy and even announcing really random things like, " I HAVE AN ORANGE BAG!!!!!"
On our last night in Borneo, Dale played in a teacher band for the final gala of the conference, and Sojo and I held down the fort in the hotel room. As Sojo was getting ready for bed, we heard some
really loud music and some whooping coming from the restaurant area. Yes, whooping, like a 'woooo ooo' sound. Sojo and I decided to head down there in her pj's to see what all the fuss was, and we discovered a lovely traditional dance (the whooping sound was part of that) with a gamelan player and a drummer. The gamelan is an almost hypnotic instrument in Asia, and Sojo was in heaven with all the music. She has since turned her xylophone into her personal gamelan and more than once this week we have acted out the dancing and music. Sojo's got a pretty good 'whoooo oooo' going on, and we love that a tiny part of the island wove its way into her musical soul.
For anyone looking for a youtube movie of the trip complete with gamelan music, click
here. Dale rocks at putting these together!
You'd think we really were castaways with the excitement Sojo had coming home to Bangkok. She ran around the living room taking out every single toy and even announcing really random things like, " I HAVE AN ORANGE BAG!!!!!" 
On our last night in Borneo, Dale played in a teacher band for the final gala of the conference, and Sojo and I held down the fort in the hotel room. As Sojo was getting ready for bed, we heard some really loud music and some whooping coming from the restaurant area. Yes, whooping, like a 'woooo ooo' sound. Sojo and I decided to head down there in her pj's to see what all the fuss was, and we discovered a lovely traditional dance (the whooping sound was part of that) with a gamelan player and a drummer. The gamelan is an almost hypnotic instrument in Asia, and Sojo was in heaven with all the music. She has since turned her xylophone into her personal gamelan and more than once this week we have acted out the dancing and music. Sojo's got a pretty good 'whoooo oooo' going on, and we love that a tiny part of the island wove its way into her musical soul. 
For anyone looking for a youtube movie of the trip complete with gamelan music, click here. Dale rocks at putting these together!
3 comments:
Always good to be home and safe. But, this trip sounds like it was just a piece of heaven for all of you. Esp. that little cherub. I can attest to the video being great and that Dale, AKA Baba does super great jobs on putting them together. From this end of the world, we say thanks.
Great pics and video! Sounds like she really enjoyed it as did you. We are looking forward to seeing you and Dale can help me put together some video. Thanks it really helps when we can't get together to skype! Love Nie Nie
My dad brought the first Indonesian (Javanese) gamelan to England...it is part of my make-up.......
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