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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Sept 15th
Independence Day and Mangos
Today is the 186th anniversary of the Independence of El Salvador. Every year there is a huge celebration in many places of the country, high school students participate in the parades in major cities and towns throughout the country. Personally, I love the parades, since I was a little girl I used to go to Sonsonate with my whole family to see the parade it in that city. Now days we don’t go there anymore, but I see it now in San Salvador. The main parade takes place in place in the Mágico Gonzales Stadium. 22 Schools present their bands, “cheerleaders” (or at least the national version of cheerleaders) and their students. Only the best schools make it to the stadium. After that, the National Police presents a show. But what people really want to see, year after year, is the military presentation.
The military presentation is a parade that starts with the presentation of the Military School (University actually), they get in with their band and the crowd starts screaming! After the band, all the military units come in: the engineers, the marines, etc…
Then, the favorite part of the show: the simulations! This year they started with the simulation of an earthquake, they showed how they can establish a “hospital” in less than 10 minutes, they find the survivors and take them to this “clinic”.
Then the Salvadorian version of swat comes in, they show what they can do and the crowd loves it!
And the cherry of the ice cream, the parachutist and paratroopers.
Now the mangos... I was surprised by the fact that every moment can become a very important memory. I was eating mangos while watching the show today and although mangos are (supposed to be) from South East Asia, mangos are so common in El Salvador and represent a huge part of my childhood, that I couldn’t help it on remember...
Remember when in used to climb the mango trees at my previous house and at school, and at schools and having all nuns running after me because I was “putting my life in danger” just because I was climbing a tree... I was a hyperactive kid, and I don’t regret it... and the few moments where I was actually able to remain calm was when I was singing the national anthem or saying the Poem to the National Flag. And I learned that at home, not at school. The truth is that I do love my country... I love its places, I love the people... precisely that’s another reason to work in AIESEC, we send people abroad, therefore, more people around the world learn about El Salvador and the ones we send, are proud Salvadorian representatives.
Today is the 186th anniversary of the Independence of El Salvador. Every year there is a huge celebration in many places of the country, high school students participate in the parades in major cities and towns throughout the country. Personally, I love the parades, since I was a little girl I used to go to Sonsonate with my whole family to see the parade it in that city. Now days we don’t go there anymore, but I see it now in San Salvador. The main parade takes place in place in the Mágico Gonzales Stadium. 22 Schools present their bands, “cheerleaders” (or at least the national version of cheerleaders) and their students. Only the best schools make it to the stadium. After that, the National Police presents a show. But what people really want to see, year after year, is the military presentation.
The military presentation is a parade that starts with the presentation of the Military School (University actually), they get in with their band and the crowd starts screaming! After the band, all the military units come in: the engineers, the marines, etc…
Then, the favorite part of the show: the simulations! This year they started with the simulation of an earthquake, they showed how they can establish a “hospital” in less than 10 minutes, they find the survivors and take them to this “clinic”.
Then the Salvadorian version of swat comes in, they show what they can do and the crowd loves it!
And the cherry of the ice cream, the parachutist and paratroopers.
Now the mangos... I was surprised by the fact that every moment can become a very important memory. I was eating mangos while watching the show today and although mangos are (supposed to be) from South East Asia, mangos are so common in El Salvador and represent a huge part of my childhood, that I couldn’t help it on remember...
Remember when in used to climb the mango trees at my previous house and at school, and at schools and having all nuns running after me because I was “putting my life in danger” just because I was climbing a tree... I was a hyperactive kid, and I don’t regret it... and the few moments where I was actually able to remain calm was when I was singing the national anthem or saying the Poem to the National Flag. And I learned that at home, not at school. The truth is that I do love my country... I love its places, I love the people... precisely that’s another reason to work in AIESEC, we send people abroad, therefore, more people around the world learn about El Salvador and the ones we send, are proud Salvadorian representatives.
Labels: El Salvador
Posted by Ethel : 1:08 PM : 
5 Comments:
Mangos rule! You just reminded me I was supposed to buy a mango twist machine some time ago to make my own, and despite what people say, dirt and bacteria don't enhance the flavor at all!
About the independence day, I thought no one went to see the parades nowadays.
Anyway, nice blog. Take care!
I bet San Salvador was on party and it was gorgeous, as salvadorians call it "qué chivo"
Besitos, sigue escribiendo!
KT
no vas a seguir escribiendo, o que??? diay! no puede morir otra vez este blog!!! =(
No sé que pasa...
supongo que por lo del cambio de servidores no puedo actualizarlo aunque he tratado... :'(
i wanna cry!
I don't like mangoes myself, but my husband (who is from El Salvador), likes them - and our children like them, too.
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