Mexico is full of traditions that make it so special. Traditions that make it feel like everything where you live had its own life.
In the town where I lived (San Buenaventura, Chihuahua), has a peculiar way to live it and one of the most fun traditions for us is "El dia de San Juan" (the day of Saint John the Baptist) that is June 24th.
For people that don't know, at the Catholic Church this saint was the person who baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.
So, we make this day our own way. A lot of trucks take a ride to the river next to town and fill up with water all the buckets, barrels, tanks, and everything they find to carry up of their trucks.
In the afternoon, the action and the entertainment begin. All the people start a "Water War", watering to everyone on the main street.
It is a day where the adults return to their childhood and the children enjoy the adults.
It is the day that all problems are forgotten.
It is the day where the people feel ALIVE again... because that day they can taste the happiness they forgot through the years.
In the town where I lived (San Buenaventura, Chihuahua), has a peculiar way to live it and one of the most fun traditions for us is "El dia de San Juan" (the day of Saint John the Baptist) that is June 24th.
For people that don't know, at the Catholic Church this saint was the person who baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.
So, we make this day our own way. A lot of trucks take a ride to the river next to town and fill up with water all the buckets, barrels, tanks, and everything they find to carry up of their trucks.
In the afternoon, the action and the entertainment begin. All the people start a "Water War", watering to everyone on the main street.
It is a day where the adults return to their childhood and the children enjoy the adults.
It is the day that all problems are forgotten.
It is the day where the people feel ALIVE again... because that day they can taste the happiness they forgot through the years.
3 comments:
i love El DIA DE SAN JUAN im
like you from Mexico and those days are unforgiven for me and hope one day to go back and revive those days
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