Day of the Dead
(Día de los muertos)
Mexico is well known for the colorful decoration and this is a special day when they celebrate, pray and remember friends and family members who have died.
This celebration is on November 1st and 2nd. Many people believe that during the Day of the Dead, it is easier for the souls of the departed to visit the living. Sometimes it can take a humorous tone with poetry and funny photos. The colors that are often used in this celebration are orange, purple, yellow, white, black and red.
Mexican families make an altar. The altar consists at a minimum of a covered table with the offerings. It has candles because they are used to be a guide for the spirits. It is built in levels and you can put the favorite things of the spirit.
Mexican food varies by region, because of local climate and geography, but this day all the cities have something in common: typical food, beverages and things. For example:
Pan de Muerto: It’s sweet bread that is glazed and decorated with colored sugar.
Candied Pumpkin: Fresh pumpkin slices that are cooked in a piloncillo glaze.
Atole: It’s a hot cup of masa gruel and it’s used to warm the spirits when they return or when they leave.
Tamales: Cornmeal paste wrapped in corn and stuffed with chicken, pork or turkey.
Mole sauce: It’s a sauce served over a chicken and It’s made with the combination of chocolate, chilies and many spices.
Hot chocolate: served in little cups with candies.
A common symbol of the holiday is the skull (Calaveras) and Catrinas. Sugar skulls are gifts that can be given to both, the living and the dead.
Other decorative things are pictures of the dead person, papel picado or tissue paper cut-outs, wreaths, crosses and flowers.
Mexico has a lot of cultural celebrations and the Day of the Dead is something that binds us together as a family. It can be seen as a sad celebration or as an enthusiastic celebration.
By Brenda
Ana was in love with Mr. Carlos who was poor and lived in front of her house. The only thing that separated the house was the Callejón, which is like a tiny street.
Guanajuato is a cultural place where there are a lot of international cultural festivals. One of them and the most important is the “Cervantino” that is every year in October.
of visitors and tourists of the world. There are a lot of stores where you can buy things of the cultures of Mexico. You can also visit places of hippies where you can find things about them with an accessible price, such as bracelets, t-shirts, etc. You can come for the mini events where you can see traditional dances, orchestrates, plays done by the guests of every city. This year the guests were Zacatecas from Mexico and Quebec as an international city.
This building had 25 classrooms, designated for the different students level. Each class room had a board, projector (to help in the teacher class), chairs and a computer for the class. Each classroom had a limit of 30 students; the building had 2 pairs of bathrooms (boys and girls), and it also had the office for the high school principal, and the generation principals. It had 2 didactic classrooms with T.V. designated for video conferences.
B11 had 30 Dell Computers and a Projector; this classrooms designed for the students. In B11 they can go to take their class, and in the computer center they can go to do work, homework, check email, use Facebook but they can play video games in the computers. The computers have access to broad band internet.
CECYC: is a building designated for events like monthly announcements, plays, conferences and more. It has grades where students can sit and a very big area that can be used for a lot of things.
help for questions, problems related with payments, scholarships and all related with administrative issues.
Parking: is designated for the students, teachers and visitors cars.
talk and more. This room has work tables and comfortable chairs for the use of the students. Also it has comfortable sofas that students can use to take a breath and also they can sleep.
Cafeteria: in the cafeteria is where students can have breakfast. In the cafeteria there is a menu with accessible prices. They have fruit, eggs, sandwiches, drinks, chips, soda, candies. There are tables and chairs and a table with sauces and some ingredients for the food.
and special activities. It is a big open area where students can meet.
Laboratory: here is where students come to take theyr chemistry class, the laboratory had a board and a computer, 6 work tables with water, air and LP gas. The classroom had several instruments to make practices like a smoke chimney, refrigerator and high performance ovens; also here students can found elements and substances to help them to make his practices.
to make finding a book more easy there is a online database where you can search the book and then locate it. The library has chairs and tables, where students can do home work or read a book.
Sport facilities: the Tec Campus Irapuato had a professional soccer field, a volleyball field, 3 tennis fields. It also has a gym and showers when students after doing exercise can take a shower.
Also it has a variety of churches and temples. The most well-known are the Templo de San Francisquito, Santuario de la Soledad, Templo de San José, Parroquia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Templo de San Juan Bosco, and el Templo del Hospitalito. It doesn’t have a lot museums, and the only one is small but there you can learn about the history of Irapuato.
We also have a “cultural house.” There you can learn a lot of cultural and art activities, also organize events in different season of the year. In these events, people can see what the students had done in their classes.
Welcome to Irapuato, GTO 