The Basbousa Rap

Here in Cairo, many people cannot properly pronounce my name. The "th" sound is not a part of Egyptian Arabic, and therefore presents a pronunciation problem. So I have a nickname: Basbousa. Basbousa is an Egyptian dessert, and is basically the equivalent of calling me "Sweet Thing." Not sure how I feel about that, but for better or for worse, I'm Basbousa to the egyptian people, my friends, and the ex-pat kids that I work with.

Last night at youth group, our game consisted of dividing the kids into groups, giving each group a leader, and having the kids write a song about their leader. I am proud to announce that my group's fabulous writing, singing, and performing skills produced an original hip-hop "ode to me," and won first place! Congratulations Jenna, Mary, Tina, and Danny! Without further ado, I present their masterpiece, The Basbousa Rap:

They call her Basbousa but her name is Bethany

She travels the world cause she's livin' the dream

A southern girl that hates ice tea

What this girl really loves is a cup of coffee

(insert some intense beat boxing and fabulous hip hop moves here)

Basbousa

Basbousa

Basbousa

Basbousa

She's here in Egypt working for Rock

She loves to cook but she hates them socks

She's Martha Stewart with a flare of spaz-spunk

What she really really hates are them stinky stinky skunks

(repeat chorus and dance moves)

They did a super job and I'm super proud of them! (and my weird song! except that skunk part - not sure where that came from)