Every year, San Miguel celebrates United Nations Day with a children’s parade, mostly the kindergarten classes, dressed in costume from all over the world. It is followed by civic speeches in the Jardin and mothers holding balloons on which flags of the world are tied, then let into the air.
The parade is accompanied
By a military drum and bugle corp.
Mothers are marching alongside pulling costumes back into place,
Keeping everyone in order, fixing hair
Saying Stop! Go! Stop! Go!
They are stomping their feet in time to the drum corp,
Chanting a mantra of uno! dos! tres! cuatro!
As if these children were in training for the military.
You can’t help but love watching them
So innocent and so serious about what they are doing.
This year’s message is about peace
And who you have to be to help make it happen.
Click on the photo below for a short video
And a message for peace.
My wife Gina and I love working with kids. My “suegra” Carmelita has owned a “kinder” named “Jardín de Niños Ignacio Allende” here in Irapuato for over 30 years. This weekend we are going to have a nice Halloween party for a bunch of kids. For me it is one of the highlights of the year 🙂