We Are The World Part 2

I didn't watch the opening of Winter Olympics ceremony yesterday, but they finally revealed the new music video of this charity song "We Are The World Part 2".

I was curious to see who's in, who's singing the part where the original artists did.

Overall, it’s O.K. I love Wyclef Jean and am so glad that he could take a huge part of this project. I still think the original was the greatest in terms of the quality, but hopefully people donate some money for helping people in Haiti. I guess I was hoping to see more big artists than seeing younger artists like Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. (Perdon me, I don’t like them personally.)

I still remember when I was in third grade, my teacher was a music freak (in a good way) and made us sing every morning, and one of the songs we did was the original "We Are The World".

Nobody in a classroom knew English, so she wrote every single word in Japanese. Then we could read it and somehow sound like English.

We watched the documentary video first, and she explained what the song is all about. I didn't know anybody in that video even Michael Jackson and Steve Wonder, so I didn't know that song was performed by the greatest people in a planet at that time.

We practiced the song every morning, and that was the highlight of the day for me. I loved my teacher so much and respected her passion for the music and the dedication for her teaching.

After a couple of month, we decided to perform that song for some kind of event (I can’t remember what it was) where all our parents could participate.

I’ll never forget that moment when we sang that song. I felt so united with my classmates and my teacher, and most of our parents had tears in their eyes, of course my mom was crying in front of me.

Looking back that time, I feel like that was the time I really got into music and also started to play the Cornett in a brass band. I still think she was the best teacher I’ve ever had in my life, and I wrote a lot of letters even after graduating my middle school.

I hope she's doing well...wow I miss her!