El Salvador turned two-hundred last week, so realizing, I'm well overdue on any kind of legitimate post, thought I'd let walk the parade. Not sure how or whether the rest of Central America holds parades on birthdays, but I'm nearly convinced it is the one place on earth where more people participate, than spectate. Literally the entire town comes out for the event, and while it consists of the students from the area elementary, middle, and high schools; from what I experienced, most people walk alongside the parade, absorbing whole portions, before hurrying up the street, to watch the same span of parade....six or eight times in our case, for the entire three plus hour length of time, spanning one end of town to the other; ultimately, all gathering in the local park for the anthem and hoo-rahs from town officials. Many of my students played a part in the caravan, and those of us that did not, walked and hollered our blue and white from the fringes, consuming pupusas, mais de loco, and horchata along the way.
Some photos of my students at the academy, along with some of Los Planes de Renderos' finest, kicking off with husband, wife, and daughter, who run 'Pupuseria Elisa' just one block up the street. No where else in El Salvador will you find liver and other internal chicken organs, so large and vibrant in a lunch soup special.
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