"Instead of shots, give us beer"

So today in my music cultures class, the first half of class was dedicated to the didgeridoo that our teacher brought in. He let people try to play it and demonstrated how, and it was all fun cause no one could, so the sounds that came out were hilarious.

But the second half! We had listened to an old protest song a while back, from around 1910 I think, "Tramp Tramp Tramp keep on Tramping" which is to the tune of "Jesus Loves the Little Children". So we listened to the song again, actually many many more times, and he split us up into groups of 5 or 6 people and told us to make up our own protest song! Using the same tune, people wrote about insurance and the banking system and fastfood/obesity, etc. Guess what our group was!

"Pig, pig, pig, keep on oinking

We don't need to worry 'bout you

Aching throat, cough and sneeze

We have been through all of these

You are simply just another stupid flu

Thanks big brother for the fear 
Instead of shots, give us beer

That would be a better use of government funds."

Yup. Swine flu. I guess people are angry about the vaccinations? There were two girls in my group that pretty much wrote it, I picked out the tune on a piano to help sing it. As we were talking coming up with things, they got the beer line and I said "I can't sing this song, I'm not legal!" But it was definitely fun! The other groups were pretty serious, laughing about singing in front of the class, but the topics were earnest. Our group said well shoot! and decided to be funny.. good times in community college. Night classes are way more interesting than ones during the day.

Another thing. The campus of Highline is on a slope, heading down towards the sound with Vashon on the other side of the water. Because of the hill, there are some pretty great views from around campus. The student union building (which is nice by itself) has a great view from a cozy reading area with floor to ceiling windows (and a heater!) that overlooks a lanscaped part of campus, and the sound/vashon beyond. The building my photography class is in has a great view of beautiful fall colored trees, the track/football field and the sound/vashon also. Now the building my music class is in, is towards the very top of campus, so it overlooks mostly everything. Since the class is later in the day the sun is usually still fairly up in the sky, but by the time we get out of the class its setting and the sky's ablaze with sunset color and reflecting off the water. 

Like this but usually better, with beautiful clouds. (that's a plane flying into Seatac, which is very nearby because probably a hundred or more planes are constantly flying in or out above us everyday, landing gears out)

By the end of the day on tuesdays and thursdays when I have all three classes i'm always pretty worn out and just wanting to go home and eat dinner on the couch, so walking out of the fine arts building and seeing the picture god paints in the sky everynight completely picks up my mood and I am happy to be there.

Well tonight the class ran almost to the time its supposed to end at and by the time we got out it was already dark and there was a nice view to pick me up! It was dissapointing, but alright because apparently the swine flu already had me picked me up! ;)