This past week, Yalaguina celebrated it’s Fiestas Patronales. Our Patron Saint is La Virgen Santa Ana and we celebrate her on July 26, which means I was woken up at 4:45am last Tuesday morning to the procession going through town. All during the week, there was a fair set up in the middle of town, selling different Nica traditional foods. And next to the police station there was a different kind of fair with a ferris wheel, swings, and other rides. Tuesday and Friday nights there were big fiestas in our town gym. The one on Tuesday had a live band and everything!
Friday, was the hipico, the big horse parade through town. It was exactly a year ago that my family came and visited me, and it was so sweet because people in town kept talking about how they remembered when my family entered town during the hipico. What made the hipico special this year was that the Vice President of Nicaragua came. Yes, Don General Jaime Morales Carazo came to little Yalaguina for the horse parade. He’s apparently really into hipicos, so he likes to attend various ones throughout the country. I saw him pass by our house, and then we all went up to our stadium for the presentation of the horses. Don General talked briefly and then walked around saludaring everyone and talking pictures. The mayor of Yalaguina presented him with some rosquillas(our specialty crackers) and a horsehead statue, thanking him for coming. As he was exiting the stage, my friend from the mayor’s office got his attention and then my cousin took a picture of us together! Our brief conversation went as such(but in Spanish, naturally)
VP: Nice to meet you
Me: Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming
VP: Where are you from?
Me: I’m from the USA but I live here in Yalaguina.
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