First installment: I hope I turn this into a habit. This is the latest adventure in my life, which has never been boring, thank goodness. Maybe someone's interested in what it's like for an American to live in a young third-world country.
I'll start with a bit of history. After all, everyone wonders how I got here, to this tiny island nation situated at latitude 10 degrees N.
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| Sierra Vista, Arizona |
When my daughter enrolled at the university she invited me to audition with her for the "steeldrum band" there. (We both loved percussion and had attended a concert a year ago where we couldn't stay put in our seats; we were jumping and jamming!) Just going through the audition was a great mother-daughter thing to do, I thought. She was sure to make it; she picks things up fast. I doubted I would.
To this day, I still remember looking at the notice on the bulletin board - we both "got in" - and I had one of those "gut reactions" that my life was about to change. How little did I know the tremendous extent of those changes!!!
In the following 5 years I fell in love with pan and pursued it passionately, steadily improving and moving up to the advanced band. It was a great thing to have found, as a single mom and new "empty-nester." Then, in 2001 we went to Trinidad, the birthplace of the steel pan.
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