We Will Rock You!

We took a cab into the city last night to hang at one of the local ex-pat pubs. (Actually, the way I hear it, this place is THE ex-pat pub to be at. And it's certainly the place to be during rugby season. Not sure where the ACC basketball fans hang out yet, though.)

It's a long cab ride -- at least half an hour. At one point, we notice that the cabbie is playing a radio station with Western rock music. And then we hear IT -- the opening drum line to We Will Rock You. We start fist-pumping along and all three of us break into a spontaneous rendition of the first verse even though the the drum line was just a teaser and the station went to commercial.

Oh, but then it came back on, and all three of us were belting out the lyrics. (Some of you have had the misfortune of hearing me sing karaoke -- it was rather cacaphonous in the cab.) The cabbie, either to drown us out or to play along, turned up the volume. Yeah, it was on!

The song ended -- but we didn't. We went right into We Are the Champions. (The radio station is still turned up loudly now, but we ignored it.) Then, my fellow English teacher starting the "ching ching ching ching" and they went into the Flash Gordon song (which I really don't know). We ended our 4 song super set with none other than Bohemian Rhapsody.

It was spontaneous and awesome.

The larger school where we work has an annual party/talent show for the staff. Each department is expected to get up on stage and make fools out of themselves, much to the amusement of everyone else. Many of the foreign teaching staff are a bit shy, and are unwilling to really step it up. But, we have already got our act planned. Bohemiam Rhapsody, all the way.