January 6th , 2009
Tonight was cool. It ws a sweet parade that moved slower than a sloth, but lasted for hours. It was haloween on catholocism! There wer elots of little batmen running around. Lots of wiches, lots of those Scream masks, and some mimes too. As far as I can understand from my abuelita, The day commemorates when the king of Bethelhem had all the babkies killed because he wanted to make sure that 12 day old baby jesus never grew up to take over his throne. All those innocent babies! Died… and so now we celebrate. (?) The holiday consists of a period of 10 days between dec 28th and jan 6th in which you play april fools tricks on your friends or publish things lke obama is coming to see the pase del niño in cuenca in the newspaper, or put white soap in your kids’ oreo’s instead of crème filling. Then add a concluding parade on the last day. The parade was a major costume contest with teams from each univesity, from some large businesse, and other schools and many families and groups of friends too. Each group chose a theme and worked it. My favorite theme was Funerario del Futuro, or Funeral of the Future, done by the University of Azuay. It rocked. the giant trampoline also wowed me as did the people on bicycles who were simultanoeulsy drinking rum straight out of the bottle and crashing into each other. I stayed there for 3 hours but didn’t see the end in sight, so headed home. Grams was waiting . also it was raining.
Tonight was cool. It ws a sweet parade that moved slower than a sloth, but lasted for hours. It was haloween on catholocism! There wer elots of little batmen running around. Lots of wiches, lots of those Scream masks, and some mimes too. As far as I can understand from my abuelita, The day commemorates when the king of Bethelhem had all the babkies killed because he wanted to make sure that 12 day old baby jesus never grew up to take over his throne. All those innocent babies! Died… and so now we celebrate. (?) The holiday consists of a period of 10 days between dec 28th and jan 6th in which you play april fools tricks on your friends or publish things lke obama is coming to see the pase del niño in cuenca in the newspaper, or put white soap in your kids’ oreo’s instead of crème filling. Then add a concluding parade on the last day. The parade was a major costume contest with teams from each univesity, from some large businesse, and other schools and many families and groups of friends too. Each group chose a theme and worked it. My favorite theme was Funerario del Futuro, or Funeral of the Future, done by the University of Azuay. It rocked. the giant trampoline also wowed me as did the people on bicycles who were simultanoeulsy drinking rum straight out of the bottle and crashing into each other. I stayed there for 3 hours but didn’t see the end in sight, so headed home. Grams was waiting . also it was raining.
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