Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Happy Mother´s Day

¡Feliz Día de las Madres! (Happy Mother´s Day...here in Nicaragua) By the way, Happy belated Mother´s Day to all of you back in the states! Today is Mother´s Day here in Nicaragua and they say that it is comparable to Thanksgiving Day in the states in that there is a big dinner and everyone is traveling to spend the day with their mothers. In the elementary school in my town as well as the high school they had a big acto (ceremony) to celebrate. This included poems, folkloric dances, and girls dancing to reggaeton. It was a very moving experience to be a part of this event, especially a part of such a warm community in Nicaragua.


These are all of the students in the school in my town waiting for the acto to begin in the 3rd and 6th grade classroom I teach in.


This is my neighbor performing a folkloric dance in a typical costume.

This is my cat play fighting with the neighbor´s cat. The 5-year old owner of the cat gets mad when they are playing because we joke with him that they are in love and that he is going to have nietos (grandkids).


These are some pictures from the acto in the high school this morning.




1 Comments:

At 9:31 PM, Blogger Elmer Fudd said...

Wheres the picures of your dad!!

 

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