Something to give you courage

It’s only one day to go to the Abitur, so I’d like to encourage you to stop studying (if you ever started in the first place) and watch this extremely heartwarming video of street musicians all around the world collaborating, thanks to a brilliant producer.

This video has been viral all over the internet for over a week. I listened to an interview with Mark Johnson, the producer, who told this story that when they were recording in South Africa, these two unsavoury-looking characters came by and looked over their equipment; Johnson happily showed them his iPod with what they’d recorded so far and they were so enchanted that they promised they would watch the recording team’s back while they were there. Turns out they were actually the bigshot gangsters in this area, who ordinarily would have stolen everything and beaten them up. Ah, the power of music.