Everyone got dressed up in their new clothes, tied their hair up pretty, and set out for the adventures of the morning.
As soon as all the marchers got out the door (all the students met here at the school, marched together to where the parade started, and then came back by in actual parade form), Camille and I started to get the non-marchers (little ones plus Luviana and Samari) ready to go out and watch. We are pretty ideally placed in the middle of the stretch that runs about 5 km.
We got to the end of our street just as the first school began to march by (we were school number 4 of about 10). The little ones were mesmerized by it all. They sat in their little chairs, their eyes glued to the students marching, and the drummers banging away.
We were quite a spectacle ourselves too. Most people that walked by took a picture of the kids all sitting. Remember how I had mentioned before here that here people most people don't sit and watch, they march right along side the students. . . whatever they prefer!
But at the end of the day, although everyone was nice and tired, I think the morning had been a success! Here are our march-ers:
The blue sashes represent the excellent students, and the red, white and blue, the very good students.
Yay Nicaragua!
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