Viva Mexico

You see it, you fill it. It’s fills as there is love in the air, not between two people but between Mexicans and their mother country. The metro station at the square Zocalo in Mexico City where the president lives and where the famous cathedral is located has just been closed this Monday, because of the preparation of the big Independents-Day festival which will be taking place the next day the 15th of September.

Doing the last one and a half week have there slowly been warming up to the independent day. Buses have had big Mexican flags hanging out of the windows. Houses have had the Mexican colors and flags hinging in the windows and at the doors. Even ITAM have had a huge banner, which have been nearly 12 meters high, going from the roof of the building to the entrance. I can easily fill that Mexicans are proud of their country.

This year is Mexico celebrating there 205th year of independence from Spain, when Miguel Hidalgo fought for Mexico’s independence against Spain, which they got the 16th of September 1810.

Where do you go?

Because Of the Independence Day is the 15th and 16th of September national holidays in Mexico and at ITAM is Monday the 14th also a holiday, therefor when my professor in Historia Politica Contemporan, Alexandra Uribe Coughlan comes in the door Tuesday morning the week before the Independence Day and asking where people are going, is the answers: New York, Washington and Las Vegas. Some of the other exchange students are going to visit Cuba or Puerto Escondido en Oaxaca, while I instead have designed to go to Chiapas in the south.

Chicken at the waterfall

I’m at the square Zócalo en Palenque waiting on the Mayer to come out and make his talk and see the firework while a band is playing in the traditional genre Banda, which are really popular her in Chiapas. I just arrived this Wednesday morning after a 14 hours bus right. I’m here with Sofia, Sofia and Itzel, all three are Mexicans who are having a holiday in Chiapas from their work in a casting agency in Mexico City. I meet them on my way back from the Maya ruins in Palenque. The Ruins are really impressive and located with a good view over the forest.

They invited me to join them on a tour to some waterfalls, which should not be as touristic as the famous Cascadas de Auga Azul, so I decided to join them. We have it all for ourselves only expertness from a couple at the last waterfall out of five. The sound of the water falling and the peace from the forest make me relax. We have to local boys going with us. When we are jumping in the water is a guy coming asking us if we would like to have tacos with chicken til what we say yes. So after swimming in the last waterfall can we enjoy tacos and chicken just until the water is starting falling down so we are searching some cover in a small cave in the mountain while there is a movement of only a the sound of rain from or Mother Nature, which can make a huge impact on a human body.