Mitchenstein at Eurovision

No, of course I haven't been selected to sing at Eurovision (not this year anyway), but you can't have failed to notice that it's May soon and that means Eurovision will soon be knocking on our doors.

Now, you may not know this, but for many years, countries had to sing in one of their official languages. A few years ago (I don't know when), they (whoever 'they' is) changed the rule so that countries can sing in any language they like. This was of course great for countries like Iceland and Finland who generally speak good English and could now sing in a language that other people had a chance of understanding. However, some other countries don't quite have the English skills they think they have. They can be kind of creative with the English language, I feel.

So as I felt like a break from revision, I decided to have a go at writing a song, Eurovision-stylee. I think you'll agree that it's beautiful. It's called 'Please Don't To Cry'. (And what started out as a stupid five minute joke actually took a lot longer.)

(NOTE: I even included the customary 'name-as-many-other-places-as-possible-so-that-they'll-vote-for-us' trick. A sure-fire winner.)

(NOTE 2: This may be the ultimate in the procrastination that Glyn was talking about).

Please Don't To Cry

(Verse 1)
When I saw you and I said goodbye,
I doesn't to know that you were to cry,
I looked on you and said, 'Why, why?'
You looked on me and did a big sigh.

(Chorus)
So please don't to cry,
If we can just try,
We can fly high and high in the sky,
So don't say goodbye
Or I will die.
You are the person I've been thinking at.

(Verse 2)
I said at you 'It can't be so bad',
You looked on me and said 'I'm so sad',
I put my hand upon your shoulderpad,
I went to home and put my ghetto blaster on.

(Bridge)
You stand in front with your beauty,
I am filled with bewonderment and duty,
I love you like Soo is loving Sooty,
You are the person I've been thinking at.

Yes, you are the person I've been thinking at.

(Chorus 2)
So please don't to cry,
I have new hi-fi,
I love you right up and up at the sky,
So don't tell a lie,
Please look at my eye,
And see you are the person I've been thinking at.

I love you in Tallinn and Berlin and Birming... ham.

My love is precipitating down,
My love is precipitating down,
My love is precipitating down,

At you.

Some More Points...

Point One:

Well the number of new languages appearing in the right-hand column has slowed down slightly... But I did get to add Russian this week (thanks Anna!), so remember, if any of you speak any languages or dialects I don't already have fluently, let me know so you can translate William Booth's quote for me! Nineteen languages and counting...

Point Two:

I came home from the Sunday morning meeting on Sunday (strangely enough - that's when we have them) and I realised that I didn't really like my hair... It had got quite long. So I shaved it all off again (but didn't ask for money this time!). Then I went to the Sunday night meeting and only 4 people noticed... (We get considerably more than 4 people to the Sunday night meeting). Now, of course, I didn't do it to get noticed, but I reckon that more people did notice, but were worried about commenting in case they'd missed it in the morning meeting...

Point Three:

I had a great weekend last weekend. AJ and Mike very kindly invited me round to see their new place and to catch up. I'd kinda been out of the loop for a while, as far as meeting with other young Salvos goes, so it was really cool to catch up again. In the evening we went to a concert at The Salvation Army in Wickford as some of my friends from Germany were over with their band. It was really cool to see them again (I hadn't seen them since German Music School in 2005) and we had a great time, catching up again on Sunday and Monday. Hopefully I'll see them again this summer.

Point Four:

I kinda like the idea of having a poll on this page (see right), but the only problem is that it shows the numbers of people voting... So now it looks like only 12 people have viewed this site this week, even though I know others have read it, that haven't selected an option. What's more, who on earth voted for 'Heart'?! How on earth can you choose being able to hear monkey thoughts over creating tornados?! Madness... In Germany they called that power 'Liebe' ('Love'), which is even lamer...

Point Five:

This has been a fairly short post, and admittedly not one of my best, but I could hardly let this weekend go by without wishing everyone a HAPPY EASTER! I hope you all have a great weekend, whatever you're doing. I really love Easter Sunday - there's always such an exciting feel about it. So if you're not doing anything this Sunday, why not check out a local Salvation Army or other church and see what's going on?! (You can't say I didn't try :-D )

PS.

Point Six:

Here's hoping for a Mars Bar Easter Egg from someone... Someone told me that you should never reveal your favourite sweets, because that's all anyone will ever give you in the future. But I can think of not much better than being inundated with Mars Bar eggs...