Monday, November 24, 2008

Vive La Revolution- and Papa's too!

Thursday Nov 22 we celebrated Revolution Day here in La Manzanilla. All the school kids participated in a parade and ended up in the central square (jardín), where they did various dances ranging from waltzing to hip hop.


As part of my PTA duties I got up at 6:30 am that day and walked over to Lupita's restaurant and started making taco's with 3 other moms to sell at the festival. All the money raised from the sale of tacos went to the kinderschool.


Bottom line is I need to get a Spanish tutor! One of varieties of tacos we were assembling was a mixture of chorizo and potatoes. So, potato in Spanish is papa and daddy is Spanish is papá. Imagine the laugh the other mothers hand when I asked how much we sell the chorizo and papá (chorizo and daddy) tacos for.


Here are some pictures of the kids on parade.





2 comments:

Steve Cotton said...

And that is why Spanish is such a pun language to learn -- espacially, its Mexican variety.

Frankly Ronda said...

Oh my gosh - those kids could not be any cuter!

It was interesting that our school did not parade into town as usual due to safety concerns. They kept the fesivities in campus.