US First Couple charms school
They came, they danced and they stole the show. This was the story of Barack and Michelle Obama’s visit to the Holy Name School in Colaba, where they visited an expo on global warming, celebrated Diwali and danced to a Koli folk song.
As the couple entered the school, they greeted people and lit a lamp to mark the occasion of Diwali. They then interacted with the students, who were wearing colourful traditional Indian attire.
Both Mr Obama and Michelle sat through the dance performance by the students and could not resist the temptation to join them to shake a leg when invited.
As the children in the age group of 9 to 12 performed a dance on a Koli song “Mi hai koli”, the couple clapped and cheered them. Soon, Ms Obama joined the children and demonstrated her dancing skills.
She also matched the dance steps performed by the children.
Later, Mr Obama gave a tacit hint about his desire to join the celebrations by saying that nobody invited him to join the dance. The children obliged immediately and pulled him to join them. The world’s most powerful man soon began swaying on the floor of the hall bedecked with fresh flowers and leaves.
The couple mingled freely with the children, their parents and teachers for a good five minutes, happily signing autographs and posing for photographs.
Earlier, the couple visited the exhibition by the students based on themes on environment including dangers of global warming, the benefits of wind energy and rainwater harvesting.
So impressed was the US President with the exhibition that he could not stop himself from mentioning about it in another function at St. Xavier’s college, which he attended an hour later.
“It was exhibition by the 14-15 year old children. I asked who among them wants to become a scientists. All of them raised their hands. When I asked them what will they do for India, they said they wanted to work for the whole world. They understood that it was not just an American problem, or Indian problem. It is the problem for entire human race,” the US President said.
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