My wrists are so sore from breakdancing today.



Today, Nomadic Wax, an international fair trade record company, came to Amherst and gave 7 of us Jeffs lessons in freestyling, djing, break dancing, and beatmaking. It was incredibly fun. My favorite was beatmaking and using this program called reason to make beats which we will then freestyle with next week at a performance. There will also be a break battle. AHHHH!

I liked learning how AMERICAN hip hop is, how much improvisation is involved, and how much art is involved. Really eye opening.

There was a b-girl (break dancing girl) from France, who taught us how to break. Her name was B Girl FraK (look her up on YouTube!)

There was also an Italian D.J and the head of the company actually went to Hampshire and studied the relationship between hip hop and political change in Senegal.

Supercooldude.

I had fun with Crystal, making fools of ourselves freestyling.

And now I'm listening to Outkast (atl represent!)

forever, foreveever, foreverever?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxAiK6VnXw