Day 3
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3. Preschool/Kindergarten/Elementary School
I don't remember what year it was, exactly, but it was one of the years I went to summer camp (the one at which we decorated the cake). There was a room in one part of the camp that we used for music sessions. It was grayish beige, I think, so probably smooth cement, although there must have been things hanging from the wall, and maybe a tiny stage in front, and the door was on the right side in the front; I remember that as a wide open rectangle, but there had to have been a door attached for rainy days.
I remember two days in that room, or maybe two songs in the same session. One was the omnipresent '80s song, Hands Up, and we were following the leader's motions as the song played over the speakers or on the tape deck: our hands waving in the air, once for each "hands up" of the chorus, then clasping together to bounce over our hearts and reaching out to the left and right as if to another person for "gimme your heart, gimme gimme your heart, gimme gimme." The other song was Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle, which I do still love today. We must have had choreography for that one, too, but I don't remember.
Wow. Just listening to those songs on YouTube throws me right back there and then.
3. Preschool/Kindergarten/Elementary School
I don't remember what year it was, exactly, but it was one of the years I went to summer camp (the one at which we decorated the cake). There was a room in one part of the camp that we used for music sessions. It was grayish beige, I think, so probably smooth cement, although there must have been things hanging from the wall, and maybe a tiny stage in front, and the door was on the right side in the front; I remember that as a wide open rectangle, but there had to have been a door attached for rainy days.
I remember two days in that room, or maybe two songs in the same session. One was the omnipresent '80s song, Hands Up, and we were following the leader's motions as the song played over the speakers or on the tape deck: our hands waving in the air, once for each "hands up" of the chorus, then clasping together to bounce over our hearts and reaching out to the left and right as if to another person for "gimme your heart, gimme gimme your heart, gimme gimme." The other song was Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle, which I do still love today. We must have had choreography for that one, too, but I don't remember.
Wow. Just listening to those songs on YouTube throws me right back there and then.