i'm not really sure why, but i've had the song "gitana" by shakira stuck in my head for the past few days. it's a pretty awesome song, i love the lyrics, and most especially the message, too. though the translation in the english version is pretty laughably awful. here's the spanish lyrics, along with a fairly literal translation to english. and here's the english version of the song. i was thinking it could be interesting to try to incorporate music--shakira songs in particular--into my english lessons. we could maybe look at the translations of shakira songs and see if the students could write better ones. and anyway, language lessons involving music were always my favorite--in spanish or chinese class.
in six weeks i will be in colombia. wow. the song seems fitting.
aprovéchame
que si llegué ayer
me puedo ir mañana,
que soy gitana.
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