Technological differences

The use of technology and the internet is far more widespread in the US than anywhere else in the world. In addition I've spent the last 4 years at a technological institute where we enjoyed the second fastest internet server in the US (only the Pentagon is faster). Therefore I am quiet partial to using technology if it's available and I'm certainly disappointed when things don't immediately open, download, etc. I've slowly been getting used to it in my apartment, where it takes over 3 hours for a 90min movie to download, but for some reason I haven't gotten it in my head that schools here also have slow internet, if they are lucky to have internet at all. At school each class is learning a Christmas song (in English) to sing at the play at the end of the week. They've been practicing a lot, and as you might guess some are intelligible while others might as well just hum. In my 3rd grade class today we were going to practice the song, but because the teacher herself isn't so strong in English and has no idea how the song goes they must practice with the music. She spent almost 45min trying to get a CD player to work. We went into 3 different rooms, tried 4 different computers, numerous CD players, the cd/tv connection, etc. When she finally gave up and told them to just try singing w/o the music it was pretty much a fail. Except for this one girl, who's really smart, and very good at English; she could sing it fine but everyone else, including the teacher couldn't really. I'm a horrible singer, so I can't really judge, but I can at least hum the rhythm of a song I've heard hundreds of times. Anywho, the entire time I was sitting there thinking, why don't you just pull it up on youtube??? After class I went to the computer at the back of the room, pulled up the internet (which worked, as it does about 80% of the time), and voila there was the song. The teacher is about mid 30s, and most people I know that age are pretty knowledgeable about the internet, basic technology, and what not. So I'm not sure if this was a generational thing (although it's not really a different generation) or a cultural thing. I'm gonna go with cultural thing, but man the first thing that came to my mind was to pull it up online and she spent a solid 45min trying to find a CD player/computer that worked. Oh well, at least I now know how the rhythm is supposed to sound & can try to listen for it during their song at the pageant later this week.