Today SJBS celebrated Dia Tipico (basically a Honduran cultural day). Each grade was given a different department of Honduras and they had to build a champa (an elaborate construction - see below) and dress a student up in traditional clothing. These were the two areas that the grades were being judged upon. The best part of the day was the food. Each grade had a menu and several items for sale....my consumption today consisted of (don't judge) a pinol topogigo (frozen popsicle in a bag), a baleada, yuca, sausages, coconut bread, pupusa, a fried desert and blackberry juice. I left the even very tired, full and HAPPY! Below are pictures from throughout the day. Each grade was also responsible for telling the crowd about different aspects of Honduras (meaning behind the national anthym, the coat of arms, the national tree, flower and animal (oddly enough its the white tailed deer - its not native to here either). Enjoy the photos.
Here's a champa
Decorations in a champa (yes a live donkey)
A beach themed champa
A view of several champas
The winner of the best traditional costume - from the department of Santa Barbara
2nd grade student in Garifuna clothing - she danced punta for us as well.
An Olancho cowboy
Kindergarten boys
Lempiran Indians
A girl from Cortes
Ocotopeque
Discussing the National Flower
8th grade's winning touch for their champa. Its a carpet made from hand colored sawdust and laid down in the design. Students had to keep spraying it with water so the design would maintain its form. This is a tradition from Comayagua where the streets are filled with sawdust carpets during Holy Week.
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