Last month was my first experience EVER riding on a metro, aka a subway. We were told early in the month that if we didn’t want to stand out too much, we shouldn’t smile in public. Have you ever met anyone on my team? That’s asking A LOT from us!!! We noticed that every time we went on the metro everyone looked so angry, mad or just plain pissed off at the world. Nobody smiled, nobody spoke, everyone just looked straight ahead and kept to themselves.
THEN WE SHOWED UP!!
We laughed, we danced, we sang, we tried to talk to people (who only spoke Ukranian or Russian), we played games, we took pictures…we really shook up the metro. One day we decide that we needed to name this phenomenon. With this came “Metro Face.” The song came shortly after…we kind of stole it from Lady Gaga’s Poker Face…my my my metro face, my my metro face na na na na! It instantly became a hit with our team. We began sharing our newly made up name with the students we were working with…they got a kick out of it! We knew that “Metro Face” was only something that happened when you got underground. Everyone in Ukraine is so nice and so welcoming…then you go down under and you think they all hate you. It’s not true, it’s just the curse of the metro. So, we did some of our best renditions of “Metro Face” and I would love to share them with ya’ll!
