Jill at Life is Not Bubble Wrapped is the host of this week’s Fun Monday (and last week as she did a two week love themed one as February is considered the month of love). I missed the first one as I’ve been taking a break from FM but joined in this week. Our task is as follows…
The week of February 15th-21st is Random Acts of Kindness Week. You can visit the RAK Foundation here. For February 22nd, your assignment is to perform at least one RAK and report back on your Fun Monday post. Tell us anything you want, what you did, why you did it, if it was done in secret, how it made you feel, or anything else.
I signed up a little late but figured I might just be able to do something, since my time has been freed up a little with no doctor’s appointments, scans, tests and various health checks, it was still a busier than normal week. I had a friend visiting from interstate so when I wasn’t sleeping and feeling unwell, I spent some time with her. At first I thought that I’d missed out on doing a random act of kindness but then I remembered something.
On her first night here, Stu and I took them into Surfers Paradise to have a wander around, get some food and photos etc, it was an enjoyable night. At one point while we were in the mall (outdoor one), Stu and I heard a familiar sound that we’ve come to enjoy whenever we’re there. There are buskers and one in particular is a favourite of ours – Adrian Burragubba. Taken from his website “He is one of Australia’s most prominent cultural educators and traditional Aboriginal performers, performing publicly for many years nationally and internationally.”
He’s a fantastic street performer, we’ve been listening to him for a couple of years now and have a couple of his cd’s which we enjoy. Not only is he fantastic on the didgeridoo, using traditional sounds but giving his music a contemporary feel plus he’s one of the nicest people you’ll meet as well!
Since we always enjoy his performances, we will always drop money in his hat and though we didn’t have time to stop and listen, I still went and dropped in a decent donation as we always do. You can check out his website here – Burragubba.
And if anyone feels moved to do another random act of kindness, feel free to sponsor me – I’m raising funds and awareness for the Leukaemia Foundation and shaving my hair off for it! Online donations can be made via their secure website – click here for my profile!
If you scroll down a few posts, you can read more about the shave project!
Here’s a little video of the first time we saw him.
Wendy, I think shaving your head definitely calls for being considered a random act of kindness. Thanks for agreeing to host next week. I updated my post with your name and link, and also put your link to this post on mr linky for you. Thanks for playing and I hope your fund raising goes well!
Well it’s more like a planned random act of kindness, I just hope I don’t look too bad after I’ve shaved LOL.
Glad to hear your feeling better these days Wendy. Jill is so right…shaving your head is an RAK from the heart. Loved the video of the street performer…very intertaining. Thanks for sharing and Happy FM
Thanks Janis, it’s slow going getting back to my optimal health but at least any small improvements are good. Plus ruling so many bad things is great too. The street performer is great, he’s so much fun to watch.
I love this music ! I would have given money too !
Isn’t it great though!
Just because your PLANNED RAK doesn’t happen during this specific week doesn’t mean you didn’t do anything. And putting a few (whatever your currency is) in the hat is definitely a RAK. It could be what makes something possible rather than falling short.
Awaiting your assignment for next week!
Good point Sayre…thanks for the vote of confidence
I’ll have next week’s assignment up shortly.
Very interesting street performer. I had never heard this before! And it was so nice of you to give him a donation for his hard work!
The didgeridoo is one of the instruments that Australian Aboriginal people play and have done for a very long time. You can buy souvenir ones but they’re really not the same as a properly made one, which nature mostly creates and then they are painted. The amazing thing is they can create a type of music or beat, but a skilled player can also create the native animal sounds as well. It’s amazing to hear people who know what they’re doing play them.
thanks for sharing {{{hugs}}} :hug:
Right back at you Joany! :hug:
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Thanks for stopping by and sharing the links….wow that video is beautiful and deserves to be shown on the blog for all to see!! :hug: