Dia de Independencia (Week)

I thought that those in the U.S. emanated patriotism, especially around the 4^th of July, but we don’t even come close to what I’ve witnessed in Guatemala. Somehow Independence Day has turned into Independence Week. The past month has consisted of every school gearing up and practicing for Guatemala’s Independence Day, which is this Saturday, Sept. 15^th. Each day this week at Los Gozosos we’ve had lots of irregular activities to celebrate including a feed full of delicious Guatemalan food, Nina Independencia, and marching in a parade. It’s been a lot of extra work, but everyone involved had so much fun—myself included :)

Our food fundraiser full of delicious, typical, Guatemalan cuisine

Beautiful!

The judges of the cook-off

Soy de Guatemala... except that I'm huge.