This year I had the opportunity to visit my home country "Eritrea" and I did not only have fun (!!!!) but also time to grow mentally and musically in this untouched oasis of a paradise.
I flew in September(just after the tourism season) as I wanted to make sure that I didn't get distracted by people (You know it...clubbing, drinking,..etc)from what I wanted to do "My Music".
Being there was not only a break from facebook (Internet in general...@CAFE was really far and had a slow connection), make up, TV (they had the same news 3 times a day in 3 different languages: English, Arabic and Tigrinya...couldn't be bothered) and £1 trash magazines!!!
Yeah, I had a real Break!!!!!
Don't get me wrong, I do really appreciate the life I've got and I don't take it for granted but now I feel as if we make life harder than it actually is.
Why do we worry so much????
My plan was to go there with my mic, mbox 2 and laptop to record samples...but for some reason my ProTools application wasn't working. I went to Computer specialists in London and Stuttgart (Germany) , but no one was able to figure out what the problem was.....
The week after, when I went back to Germany I found out that Pro Tools 7.4 wasn't working because of the upgraded version of Internet Explorer that I had installed on my laptop....
Even though I was very angry at the beginning (as I spent a lot of money to go to PC specialists and more importantly, the time that I had lost by waiting and thinking)...I was happy that it happened.
It didn't work out the way I planned it, but instead I recorded shots for my "Get down" Music Video and enjoyed a family reunion after 8 years.
I found this really sweet video of Eritrea on youtube.......this is for YOU!!!!
Peace!!!
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