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The visit to the Creole garden was a great experience. The garden was a little paradise. During the visit George's child followed us, he was so sweet and I felt the freedom looking him running and playing with plants. There were a lot of plants and all of them told a story very interesting and fascinating.
The music lesson was amazing. I learned an important thing about Gwoka music: it was the first way of communication for slaves and this music continue to live. We also communicated through the music, we shared our energy and it was a fantastic experience. William, Michelle, Jean Marie and George are very good people; William said an important things: " you can play music, you can dance, you can sing" , I did all this things. It was a challenge for me but the atmosphere was so happy and the air was full of energy and I felt a strong power inside.

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Today I learned a thing I will hardly forget: everybody can play, everybody can dance, everybody can sing... me too! Thanks to Michel, William, Jean-Marie and Georges and their amazing music lesson, there was a moment when I could really feel the rhythm flow inside me - something that had never happened to me before. But, after all, we all learn rhythm from our mother's heartbeat, before we are even born...

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Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

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Today was a day I was a little bit afraid of in the beginning. I knew, that playing drums, dancing and singing in front of other people is far, far outside my comfort zone. But I must say that the experiences I made with our group in the last days encouraged me to be optimistic about the coming experience. I clearly noticed today, that the support of your „learning group“ and teachers that are demanding in an encouraging way can really enable/enhance your learning experience. I felt a little bit more comfortable with the thought of failing or making a fool of myself because I had previously built the trust, that nobody would ridicule me for that.

Although the session was still very challenging for me, it was also really deep, emotional and happy. The connection that was made through the music between all of the participants was such a unique feeling to me. I had an urge to hug everybody in the end and felt close to all that had shared the experience. I was really proud of our group for doing so good and creating the different rythms. Also Kudos to everybody for being so brave in dancing and singing! I think that going through a challenging experience like this can really catapult a group to the next level of productivity. The drum- teachers, especially William, also did an amazing job. I can imagine that it takes a lot of invisible pedagogy- magic to make me feel that comfortable to come out of my shell.

In reflecting with Dajana afterwards, we both noticed that we felt jealous about having such a strong and emotional „national musical treasure“ as the Gwoka in Guadeloupe or the Kankle tradition of Lithuania. Germany probably has a lot of traditions, but almost all of those got lost through the war. Today, turning to national traditions and symbols in Germany is always connected to very right wing and conservative ideals. I can see, that it can be in our hands, to support the development of new „national treasures“ that belong to everybody in our society, as we can see in the examples given to us daily by the people of Guadeloupe. Developing those shared „new“ traditions is such an enormous accomplishment for a society!

I also take away from today, that the best initiation for learning is to inspire a personal interest in the pupils. Experience, participation and self-efficacy are transformative tools for a positive and engaged learning experience. As Tucker/James put it: Teach the kids to know, to care and to act.

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In a very simpel way the concept of national Identity meens a group of human beeings are sharing – experiences, values, ideas, skills or cultures.

While we were visiting a creol garden we didn’t see any plants growing separated from other kinds of plants. It is more like the opposite, there were many plants which even grow better in a mixed field because there are supporting each other and sharing the nutrition. So every plant gets what is needed. It seemed like the nature shows us there is no reason to worry about multiculturismen!

But then we also get to know GWO KA - a typical drum and kind of music in Guadeloupe. It came up during the time of the slavery in Guadeloupe and there are different times of the day which are represented by seven rhythms. I was really impressed when we were just listening. But then we started playing by ourselfs I felt the energy starts growing.

And besides this, it is nice to know that is is not about the ability but about the communication and the unity of the ones who join in.

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Starting point zero and ending to play drumms together in  one united rythm! Our teachers were quite wizards :)

I enjoy the intense concentration that needed and the feeling of flow when I caught the rythm. The joy of learning something new felt great. I felt so energetic and happy afterwards.

Situation also reminded me how little children play together without shared language or no language at all. Today we played together by means of music and rythms. That also reminded me that we truly have more things in common that things (cultural or others) that separate us. And these common human roots lie deeper in our grounds than anything artificial built above it.

The place we spent the day in was such a paradise. My picture is taken there. The nature has it`s rythms and periods too.

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Today's session turned into a great experience of making music, starting basically with no previous knowledge of playing drums. I loved the way our teacher went into the topic - he was very straightforward and demanding in a way but at the same time encouraging and motivating. The whole session was very intense from the beginning until the end. I was fully concentrated in the rhythm and achieved sort of a flow state. I could easily have gone on dancing and playing all day.
I envy his pedagogical skills and he really inspired me. I hope to be able to make use of this experience at my work when the pupils don't have any foreknowledge or motivation whatsoever. It's all about trying and believing in one's abilities. We all have them hidden in ourselves. We just have to give it a try.
Music unites people and cultures, it usually brakes the ice if there are social boundaries. Learning new can be fun and a safe and pleasant atmosphere are very important. The classroom wouldn't have been more suitable for today's session!

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No pictures today, only videos (on another location). Looking at the video this morning I realized that although I like music and like to watch others dance I have absolutley no references when it comes to this kind of music. I find it difficult to know if what I see is something to applaude or not. It is like a totally different game although music is a universal connector between people in the world. I think that (even if my understanding is limited) we got to play with some true professionals today. I liked to see how they listened to each others playing and found their own accompanying rythm. I use to tell my students that the difference between good and great is that the truly great ones make everyone else around them look good. I feel that was what happened today. So although the speed we proceeded in and the levels we experienced made me a bit uneasy and nervous about failing miserably they turned it into a good memory.

I was also impressed by the living conditions. The possibility to live like that with everything you need on your yard is truly remarkable for me as a Finn. Of course you could live on homedelivered pizza and such things but that is sort of amateurlevel compared to Georges life. Of course that probably is simplifying things too much since I know so little but still a really nice experience.