I decided to go international today and chose a really cute song and video from Egypt. Even if you don't understand the words, the music and kids in the video will hook you.

Without translating all the lyrics, the basic story of the song goes like this: a man calls his friend's house and when the son answers the phone, the man asks, "Where's your dad" (Baba fein in Arabic). The little boy responds, "My dad is here, right here. Who is speaking? Tell me who I'm talking to" (Baba henna, henna ho. Olu meen? A oulu mene kalemu.). The man tells the boy that it is Amu (uncle, a title of respect given to elders who may or may not be a blood uncle). The boy responds with, "Uncle who?" and begins a conversation. Instead of getting his father to take the call, the boy passes the phone off to his sister who introduces herself first with her name, then as the sister of the boy who answered the phone, and finally, as the daughter of the man the caller wants to speak with. The poor man grows increasingly frustrated and asks the girl where her father is only to have the same sequence of events with the boy repeated with the girl. The girl passes off the phone to her brother' friend, and the whole thing starts all over again. In the end, the poor caller just gives up.





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