Tuesday, March 22, 2005
LANGUAGE WARNING FOR THIS POST
Well, with the absence of the digital camera, we are left with text updates for the time being, so here goes.
D'Arcy sings
"We are black kids of Australia
We come from ancient culture
Called Yurabwridgee.
Today our culture's growing
We're glad to say it's so
So let's all stick together,
Let's not let it go"
Credit and apologies to the wonderful Johnny Huckle...
D'Arcy's version is reasonably true to the original, with some word changes. I think that his word "yurabwridgee" is Wiradjuri, but I haven't fully investigated it yet. He is very interested in indigenous cultures from all around the world, so we do a lot of talking about culture and diversity. A few weeks ago he was a Native American called Ben. This week he is a dinosaur (iguanadon) called Neera. What you see is what you get with a four year old.
Sadly, but also amusingly, some of his favourite utterances are pretty scary. One of the pre-school staff took Nick aside the other day and said "we're a bit worried that D'Arcy has been saying 'fucking hell' and 'for fuck's sake' a lot". Can't imagine where he got that from.
His main aim over the next week is to make himself sick from eating chocolate, "like I did last year" (he can remember that???), so I'm trying to figure out how to aid him in this endeavour, without having to clean up afterwards or deal with the sugar crash.
Well, I'd best get off to bed now so that I can be bright and early to collect him from Nick's house.
Well, with the absence of the digital camera, we are left with text updates for the time being, so here goes.
D'Arcy sings
"We are black kids of Australia
We come from ancient culture
Called Yurabwridgee.
Today our culture's growing
We're glad to say it's so
So let's all stick together,
Let's not let it go"
Credit and apologies to the wonderful Johnny Huckle...
D'Arcy's version is reasonably true to the original, with some word changes. I think that his word "yurabwridgee" is Wiradjuri, but I haven't fully investigated it yet. He is very interested in indigenous cultures from all around the world, so we do a lot of talking about culture and diversity. A few weeks ago he was a Native American called Ben. This week he is a dinosaur (iguanadon) called Neera. What you see is what you get with a four year old.
Sadly, but also amusingly, some of his favourite utterances are pretty scary. One of the pre-school staff took Nick aside the other day and said "we're a bit worried that D'Arcy has been saying 'fucking hell' and 'for fuck's sake' a lot". Can't imagine where he got that from.
His main aim over the next week is to make himself sick from eating chocolate, "like I did last year" (he can remember that???), so I'm trying to figure out how to aid him in this endeavour, without having to clean up afterwards or deal with the sugar crash.
Well, I'd best get off to bed now so that I can be bright and early to collect him from Nick's house.
# posted by Mummy/Crit : 9:30 PM
