Tonight's Lullaby: Hay Amores

[Xipe Totec]

From: Amor En Los Tiempos De Cólera

(Love in the Time of Cholera)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hGkeTH0y0

Oh my love! I’d do anything for you
to have you for a second, far away from the world
and close to me
Oh my love! Just like the Magdalena river
which merges into the sea sands,
I want to be one with you.

Some loves become resistant to destruction,
like fine wines that improves with age,
the way my feelings for you grow ever stronger

There are loves that wait for winter and then bloom
and in autumn evenings turn evergreen,
just like the love I feel for you.

Oh my love! Don’t forget the sea,
which has seen me crying in the night
over the memories I have of you
Oh my love! Don’t forget the day
which separated your life
from this life that was my destiny to live

Some loves become resistant to destruction,
like fine wines that improves with age,
the way my feelings for you grow ever stronger

There are loves that wait for winter and then bloom
and in autumn evenings turn evergreen,
just like the love I feel for you.






Good night, DU :hi:

[Judi Lynn]

1. Wow, tears in my eyes before that song was finished. Beautiful.

I never saw this side of Shakira before hearing this song. She is a serious singer.

The song is powerful. It doesn't fade away quickly, but stays with you after hearing it.

Thanks for sharing this one, Xipe Totec. It stand completely apart from the music we're accustomed to hearing.

[Xipe Totec]

2. I must admit, I had underestimated her also

I was shocked the first time I heard her singing this song.

It is powerful.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Shakira Builds School

Shakira Builds School
By Leanne, Wednesday 11th February 2009 09.27am

International superstar Shakira has been a tireless proponent of universal education for many years. This week, she was in her home town of Barranquilla, Colombia to inaugurate the Barefoot Foundation School, a new district school and community center that will serve l500 full time students, preschool through high school. It will also provide services to 8,400 young people and their parents from the local community, most of whom have recently arrived in Barranquilla, having been displaced by years of conflict in Colombia.

Colombia faces a humanitarian crisis of gargantuan proportions, exceeded only by that of the Sudan. Four decades of internal strife has displaced more than 2.6 million people, 45% of which are children.

The Barefoot Foundation School is the fifth and largest school that Shakira has built. Located on 9.8 acres of property, the l51,00 sq ft facility includes 40 classrooms, four computer labs, a library, scholastic restaurant, theatre, sports complex and auditorium.
The school makes use of the most modern teaching methods and syllabus, teaching languages, physics, chemistry, literature and more. Through The Barefoot foundation’s open door policy, the entire local population will be able make use of its sports facility and vocational training program , making it a Center for Community Development as Shakira intended when she first conceived of the school.

The Barefoot Foundation is a non government, nonprofit organization created in 1995 by Shakira. Since 2003, under the direction of Maria Emma Mejia, the former Chancellor and Minister of Education, the foundation has made it its mission to help Colombia’s most vulnerable people: children and the displaced population.

http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/news/national/4995/Shakira+Builds+School

[Xipe Totec]

4. Wow! Very classy lady

I did not know that.