Here in Mexico we have a celebration in November 2nd where we celebrate the people that we use to admire or love that are now dead. This special day its called
Day of the dead. We celebrate dead as something good and a feeling that we are not afraid of, something that we can't avoid. We remember and celebrate with love the people that are not anymore around us.
This is a big celebration in our culture, we even take 2 days off from school. The center of the city gets full of offerings that are like tables full of flowers, food that the death one liked to eat, things that he or she liked to do and other things that conforms the traditional offering. There are some really beautiful ones, and this year I was so so so angry that I didn't got the chance to go and look at them, but anyway there are a lot of these offerings around the city, in houses, schools or just people that want to make them. Because of the offerings needs lots of flowers, some weeks before the fields gets full of beautiful flowers that smell so nice. There is one typical type of flower that we use that is called "flor de muerto" there lots of colors of this flower and its so so beautiful to see them all in the feels, making beautiful the world as all the other flowers. I really love flowers.
Me and my family, we don't use to put this offerings every year, but we decided to do it this year. I have been loving this weather and time, I really love autumn, so I was so looking forward to do it. So, Ivana, I hope you don't take this as something bad and I totally understand if you don't like or understand this celebration, a lot of people from other parts of the world have called us "crazy" because they don't understand this celebration or they think its creepy or stupid, other people think its nice and interesting, so here it is.
This year my mom decided to do the offering in honor of my grandparent (his dad) and I also wanted to include your mom Ivana, I thought it would be a nice thing. So here it is.
I add a spicy lollypop so she can try mexican candy.
I decorated her photo with beautiful pictures of flowers that I found on magazines. Because she liked to take care of her big garden, I put a big garden hat and garden tools. There is the believe that in the night of the 2nd of november, the neath come at night and eat the food ad enjoy the things that you put in the offer. I leave her a cup with milk, cinnamon and sugar as you Ivana told me she really liked it. We have to leave a glass of water because is supposed that the death do a long journey from heaven to earth and when they arrive they are exhausted so we leave water so they can calm thirst. i left some cookies so she could enjoy them with the milk. The little sugar skull is typical decoration of the festivity. I hope you liked it, because I really liked to make it and think about you and your mom while I was doing this.
I love this time of the year, when its getting cold and you can feel that the winter is coming. Its so magical and even romantic. I think I would love to get to know the love of my life in autumn, with the crazy wind moving my hair in a gold sunset. I love this time of the year.
The other day me and my friend Irene went for an adventure in the streets of Cholula. I didn't got to see the big beautiful offerings that where put on the center on Puebla, but I got to see some small and nice ones in Cholula. There is one that was in honor of Frida Kahlo, the famous mexican painter. It was really beautiful. We call Catrina to the representation of the death, its a woman skeleton dressed with colorful or black clothes and nice dresses, with big fancy night hats. This offering was so nice because there where Catrinas representing paintings of Frida Kahlo, I hope you know her or you will not understand, if not, then thats your homework for today, go on google and see all her beautiful paintings.
Her last words "I hope the exit is happy and I hope to never come back"
Then we found a street full of people in a fair. This was outside of the cemetery, where the people went to leave flowers to their loved ones. There was so much food and things to look at.
We continue exploring our city seeing boyfriends, flowers, interesting restaurants, people, feeling the wind in our faces, feeling the cold in our skins. I like to admire this curious and beautiful country of mine, full of fancy and expensive places, full of funny, humble and full of things that can't be explain easily. I love it and hate it at the same time, but the reason why I want to leave this place it because I think I have discover I have a nomad heart, but I still want to find my home. This city is just my nest, the place where I was born, where I grew up and was raised, but I can't consider it home. I like to explore
More photos of that afternoon...
mmmmmmmmm chai latte, the best one I have ever try!
"Cholula, magic town"
I love you Ivana, Noora, Tianna.
