Is that Usher or is it James? It's James. Now James has played an integral role in developing group unity among the Jerusalem student body. Result: we have a group dance that we perform in various venues...
It's to "Waka Waka" (Shakira's one of my all-time favorite artists. My hips still don't lie.)James taught us all the dance and now we perform it together (all 80 of us) whenever possible. James hooks up someone's ipod to the transmitter system and we all simultaneously dance the "Waka Waka" via our headsets. We did it at the Pyramids, and then we tried doing it at Hatshepsut's Funerary Temple in Luxor.
Tourists flock around us whenever this happens, flashing pictures, giving us strange looks, they basically just stop in confusion as we dance silently to the music.
So at Hatshepsut's temple Master Tooter (Islam) was watching us do the "Waka Waka" and suddenly we see a guard walk over to him while he was filming our performance. He informed Islam that dancing was not allowed in this location.
Islam asked if he could finish filming us before he was taken over to the head guard about our dancing. We end our dance, Islam goes to the head guard, and the head guard....loves it.
He asks Islam if we practice the choreography together reguarly because it looks so good. Islam made the point that it wasn't really dancing it was just "movement." The guard agreed and the "Waka Waka" is still alive and well here in Jerusalem.
Our catch phrase: "Healing hearts through the Waka Waka, one dance at a time."
Here is Hatshepsut's Funerary Temple. Hatshepsut seemingly reigned as a man in Egypt because she was pharaoh, which was unprecedented in Egypt. When her son Tutmoses III took over as pharaoh he removed Hatshepsut's name from many historical documents and buildings out of spite.
Lizzy, Kelsey, and me.
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