A difficult week comes to an end.
Last Saturday I went to “Sa Vileta” on
bike for private tutoring and the cold air rushed into my lungs. So on Monday I
already had a cold. I hadn’t caught one for the last TWENTY years. I had to muddle
the whole week, teaching with a stuffy nose.
Late on Monday evening I had to give a
private lesson to a fifteen-year-old girl. We were reading a book when the young and foreign stepfather burst into the room, thrusting “niceness” and
requiring an explanation, because the teenager had not passed her English exam.
Actually, the teenager’s mother moved her into a new school this year and the
new institution has a level of English which is too high for her. Now the
“baby” urgently needs more than three hundred hours of English lessons to put
up with the rest of the class. Instead, the family has decided to “help” her
with one private lesson per week. More than a month ago, I reported this to the
mother, who promised to study the issue. And, when it seemed that the
subject was already forgotten, the glossy twenty-seven-year-old second husband turned up.
An acquaintance of mine has the habit of
humming a “pasodoble” whenever someone tries to provoke him. The higher the
grievance, the stronger he hums. I was so amused reminding that habit of my
friend, that my though unwittingly knocked at the door of “The Tough Cyclist’s
Band”. The band is made up of a trumpet, a violinist and a former Santa’s
reindeer who retired due to certain intestinal problems which caused him a
terrible aerophagia. Now Pudolf, the farty reindeer, enjoys his musical
retirement while the fans of the orchestra are absolutely delighted with his
hight sense of rhythm. However, Pudolf does not perform popular “pasodobles”,
but the most exquisite Vienna Waltzes. For this historical broadcast
opportunity, the master of ceremonies chose “The Blue Danube”.
Blaue Donau (Johann Strauss)
Orchestra conductor: Xosé Troitiño (The
tough cyclist).
(The conductor approaches the podium and
takes the lead).
PA – RA – RA – RA – RA
PU-PU PU-PU
PA – RA – RA – RA – RA
PU-PU PU-PU
PA – RA – RA – RA – RA
PU-PU PU-PU
PA – RA – RA – RA – RA
PU-PU PU-PU
Quickly....
PA – RA – RA – RA – RA
PU-PU PU-PU
PA – RA – RA – RA – RA
PU-PU PU-PU
PA – RA- RA – RA -
RAAAA
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
PA – PA - PAAAAAAAA
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
PA - PA - PAAAAAA
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
PA - PA - PAAAAAA
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
PAAAAA
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
PA PAAAAA
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU
FART – FART – FART –
FART – FART – FART – FART – FART – FART – FART – FART –
FART – FART - FART –
FART – FART – FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART– FART – FART – FART - FAAAAAAAAAAART
PU-PU-PU-PU-PU-PU-PUUUUU
A hug from Palma and a new photograph for
the “throw back Thursday”.
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