Three Kings Day and Jen's visit!!

Yeahhhh!! I had a visitor!! Jen came to visit from Canada and promote her very cool job on class afloat and attend a wedding. So we had a very nice traditional Mexican meal and toured around Mexico City. Also, January 6th is Three Kings day or Three Wise Men here and this is when children receive gifts from the Three Kings. They write messages on balloons and let them fly into the air.Children receive gifts at night and celebrate the next day by eating some special foods. Then people eat special round cakes and if they find the baby Jesus in the cake they have to have a party on February 2 for the presentation of Jesus. Always about parties!! Here are some pictures form our Three Kings party and Jen's visit. We also visited the Basilica of the Virgen of Guadalupe which is one of the holiest places in Mexico.

My birthday on the beach

So this is exactly the way I like to celebrate my birthday ...on the beach. We came to Acapulco on Christmas day and then on my birthday we spent the day on the beach and went to hear a Spanish guitar concert with Chamin Correa that night. The only thing that was missing was friends and family!!

Christmas in Mexico Feliz Navidad!!

Christmas here started with the posadas that celebrate Mary and Joseph's journey for a place to have baby Jesus. So every neighbourhood reenacts this and people go through the streets singing songs with sparklers and candles. They sings certain songs and then a family will let the singers into the house and give them food and everyone rocks the baby Jesus that they have in their nativity scene...they are huge here!!! Of course there are pinatas filled with candy and the seven points of the pinata represent the seven mortal sins ( I didn't know that) Then there is a lot of dancing and singing!! Here are some pictures of some of the Christmas posadas!!

Christmas Concert

Here some pictures from the school Christmas concert in December. It was the first Christmas concert I have ever been at that was outside. I survived and my students were fantastic!! Take a look!!