Songs and Memories

 

Ever since humankind has existed, there has been music in our lives, created to worship, memorize procedures, commemorate an important historical event or just to have fun.

I’m sure we all have listened to some songs which bring back memories into our minds.

Among those songs, I’m going to pick one or two and tell you about what event in my life they remind me of.

The first song I’m going to mention is Michelle by Gerad Lenorman. It is a French song released in 1978 (now you can calculate my age, hahaha) and what this song reminds me of is my first year studying French at school. I went to a private school and in those days, you couldn’t choose which language you wanted to learn. We had to take both English and French. Since I had never had French lessons before I found it fascinating. I loved French then and I still do. I hope, one day, I manage to speak it fluently and be able to go to Paris and speak to people there as if I were a native speaker, oooh oui, oui, oui. C’est le plan.

Another song which brings back memories - not that happy - is “All star” by Smash Mouth. Those were the years I lived in the States, and in the late 90’s, Smash Mouth released this song. I remember I used to go to the lake near the town I was living, to have some time on my own. I felt homesick and lonely although I wasn’t alone. I missed my mountains in Chile – just like Heidi, “Girl of the Alps” hahaha. The thing is that, somehow, this song made me laugh and cheered me up.

Now, you have to write about

- What song or songs bring back memories in your mind

- What those memories are about

- When those events happened

- Who else was involved in those memories

- Mention anything else that you consider important