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2005-03-14
The Voice and Totality of Goodness of Clay Aiken Day: UNICEF Ambassador Visits Indonesia LBFCA joins with all of Clay Nation in wishing Clay well on his trip to Indonesia on behalf of UNICEF. Our hearts go out to the people of the tsunami ravaged area. Yahoo news brought us our first glimpse of Clay in Indonesia, and I take the following text from the yahoonews.com links, copied below. "Clay Aiken, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, talks with Acehnese children during his visit to the area struck by last December's tsunami in Aceh province, Indonesia. Monday, March 14, 2005."
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Translation of the TEMPO article (Tempo is like the local TIME magazine, courtesy of CAS' Caybaby):
American Idol Runner-up Entertain Aceh Refugees TEMPO Interaktif, Banda Aceh: Clay Aiken UNICEF Ambassador who is also runner-up of American Idol, Monday (14/30) afternoon charmed the kids from Lampuuk Beach, Lhok Nga, Aceh Besar (bigger part of Aceh) refugees. About 100 children of elementary school age gathered around the shore to greet Clay. The kids are from tsunami hit areas who now are sheltered at camps around Lhok Nga. The kids welcomed Clay with songs, he then had some chats with them. He also motivated the children to be happy. Clay, accompanied by Ferry Salim (local celeb who's also a UNICEF ambassador), was also singing with the kids. Slowly his mouth began to get used to the song 'di Sini Senang, di Sana Senang' (literal translation: happiness everywhere; a common Indo kids nursery song ). Next, they went with drawing competition and calligraphy writing which was held by the committee, Child Center under the umbrella of UNICEF. Clay was the American Idol 2003 runner up who is signed by RCA. He appeared on Rolling Stone cover and Entertainment Weekly Magazine. UNICEF appointed Clay as Ambassador for All Children of the year 2004. Adi Warsidi-Tempo
This is the complete lyrics of the song "Di sini senang, di sana senang"
Di sini senang, di sana senang
...it's one of our girl scout songs, and you have to sing it to the tune of "we're happy today. we're happy today, we're happy to be with you today........."
"Clay and Aceh boy - AI second winner, CA (27), Monday (3/14) sing together with Aceh children at Lampuuk beach, Aceh.
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