Last night my wife informed me that she has already told the people at the SOS children's village in Bethlehem that I WILL be performing for them when we go over in October. I have already put in about 3 hours of practice in July, and this morning I renewed my efforts with another 20 minute session. I shall keep it simple: a handful of 3 ball tricks including my personal favourite, the head-catch, followed by a quick demonstration of 4 balls and then finish off with the famous "eating an apple" trick (if indeed they do have apples there)- which always goes down well and has the additional virtue of being fairly easy.
I will have to dispense with my normal patter, however, as my Arabic is non existent beyond "mish moushkala" which means "no problem", "shukran" (thank you), "La shukran" (no thanks)and "yalla" which means "let's go!"
I need hardly add that with the odd exception, no one there speaks any English. But then juggling is a language which transcends all cultural barriers, so perhaps I'll be OK in the event.
No comments:
Post a Comment