Patriotic September

15 of September 1821: Guatemala's independence from Spain.

First half of September 2016: school is dedicated to the preparation and performance of various activities which entertained the kids and provided some glimpse of local traditions, though it meant skipping approximately two weeks of lessons one month before the end, without any addition of historical  knowledge to make up for the loss...
We got: two parades (video) - one with all the schools of the sector (fun at first, boringly long in the end), one just for our school, with guest band (better but by then it felt as a useless duplicate) - a good morning of traditional dances (video) and another one of decent but a bit meaningless (at least at that time of the year) gymnastic-dances. The classes also arranged a snack-exhibition of typical dishes, as you can see in Michele's 3rd grade.

The best part of this was to see so many students (even M&S, thanks to a family of friends who hired-lent them to us) in their beautiful traditional dress, which is great but at the same time quite sad as it makes you realise how modern colonisation robbed these countries of culture and traditions (without mentioning the economical aspects), as now only women and girls wear those nice fabrics, on some occasions.