One of the highlights of my Australian Culture classes was the series of student presentations which took place at the end of the semester. In one of the final presentations, on the topic of Australian poetry (a topic that no one was really that keen to tackle), the students (including the cute koala pictured below) broke out into song, the lyrics of which I have presented below. They also gave me a cd featuring an mp3 version of the song, which I hope to upload soon.
Aussie and we Korea
Thank you Prater for your class
Made us become Creator
oh My dear Prater.Though I sometimes took a nap.
At least I know Phar lap.
Met I Kangaroo and oodgeroo.No more nasty Vegemite.
I don’t want another bite.
No more ABC news tonight.Now old ANZAC wowow
Thanks for comin’ at hard time.
From your land to end war crime.As time goes by, We say good-bye.
Just one thing to remember.
We had great time from September.Learning so far Australia
showed us who we really are.
Forever Aussie and we Korea.
Forever Aussie and we Korea.
I’m speechless.
[...] I also found about a thousand images from my time in Seoul in 2005 - boy, do I miss that place! Mind you, I don’t miss my ridiculously long (for me) hair, the extra ten kilos I put on while there, or the murderously icy streets of Seoul in winter, but overall I do have happy memories of my time there, perhaps best summed up by a song a group of my Australian Culture students wrote and recorded for me as part of their extremely brown-nosed presentation. The song’s called “Aussie and We Korea” so listen and learn, or read the actual lyrics to the song here. [...]
28 March 2007 at 4:42 pm