We celebrated the day of dead (Día de Muertos) last Friday in the preparatory with a contest of offerings, in which participated all the groups of the school. The third grade "C" (the dummies) took part with an offering dedicated to the Mayan gods.
The Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous cultures. Rituals celebrating the deaths of ancestors have been observed by these civilizations perhaps for as long as 2500–3000 years. In the pre-Hispanic age, it was common to keep skulls as trophies and display them during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. So the old cultures celebrated the day of dead too, and the origin of this beautiful tradition comes from those age. We wanted to resemble to everybody, with our offering, where from comes the tradition of the day of dead, due to nowadays this tradition is getting lost due to foreign influences.
All the dummies worked very hard to manage to build the best offering, and we did it!, this year the dummies won the first prize; two years ago we won the third prize and a year ago we won the second prize, but the important business is that this year we had a good organization and we work together, and finally we managed to do something without troubles or fights, and I think it was very important for everyone.
I want to congratulate all the dummies for the first prize and, at the same time, I want to ask to the teacher Otoniel, how much did the dummies pay for the first prize?, because he was one of the judges and is very suspicius that his favourite group won.
It is our last year at the preparatory and we have to enjoy it, the last week we partipated in our last day of dead like a group, I know all the dummies are very happy because last friday was a really exciting day and we learned a lot of things about work together, we had our last chance to share one of the most wonderful mexican traditions and it was perfect.
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