Last Weekend

The past ten days I had the chance to travel with my sisters and my father, to an amazing country, Mexico. So my past weekend was really great and by far the most interesting weekend of all! In Mexico by this time of the year, they celebrate “Dia de Muertos” this tradition is a way to gather all as a family and even as a country in order to commemorate the people that passed away (as the name explains it), but not only in a spiritual way and religious, more as a huge party to celebrate them in a good way.

Before the trip, I knew some things about this celebration, like the fact they all dress as skeletons or as Catrina, they paint their faces like skulls with some ornaments like flowers or even drawings of spider webs! But once I was there I realized how important this was for each other. During the whole weekend they party with a huge band in the street, the children are all dress up as skeletons and everyone dance and some people even drink mescal as a celebration. Then in the night they visit their loved ones in the cemetery, they decorate their graves with flowers and candles, and stay all night sited there. They eat, drink, sing and even dance, as a way of remembering them in a joyful way. One of things that impressed me the most was they have special food for these days. The one I loved the most was a bread call “pan de muertos”, has the taste of sweet bread but with the shape of bones!

One of the greatest experience of my entire life in just a weekend. I really enjoyed all the time I spend in Mexico, but this is definitely a thing you must do in your life. Not only because of how cool is to see all the people celebrating joyfully the people that had passed away, but is really a reflexive moment for someone, why the majority mourned their loved ones in a sad way instead of remember them as good as possible!