It is the time of year when Oaxaca dances... I mean, everywhere. It is the beginning of the guelaguetza, the huge annual dance festival. And tt is wild living somewhere where dance is such a part of everyday life. For the next two weeks, hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans and visitors will watch the state strut its stuff. Oaxaca is where many Mexican come to drink in the traditions and reconnect with their roots.
And everyone dances... this is today, at a school just down the road from me. I had to laugh... I taught in a Yankee prep school and getting boys to dance... fergetabouit..... also, even if we could have gotten the boys to dance... I don't think the machetes would've flown.
These kids were great, very tight, and the sounds of the machetes, perfectly in sync, was wonderful.
Ahhhh... school days...
Lots of dance in the next few days... and food....
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