Today at school we celebrated 15 de septiembre, which is the Honduran independence day. The students participated in a "parade"...I'll use that term lightly...we walked around the school yard. Each class was also responsible to bring in a traditional Honduran food. My class brought in ticucos and pineapple juice. Ticucos are some sort of corn mixture with beans, some sort of meat (today was chicken) and some variety of vegetables. and then covered in crema. Other foods that were brought in by other classes included tamales, enchiladas, tacos, carne asada and sopa de mondongo (lots of vegetables and cow stomach...yummmmmmmmmm! People tried to get me to eat it, I politely declined.). And for drinks of course all sorts of fruit juices, horchata, and fresco de nance. Horchata is a ricey milky cinnamony drink (how's that for a description?) and fresco de nance is a juice made from nance fruit...I don't really know how to explain it.
Tomorrow is when the towns actually celebrate it with real parades around town and festivities in the parque. Which means no school tomorrow! :)
I have some videos of the typical dances they did today during the acto civico, but they're taking forever to load. I'll try again later when the internet isn't so slow...
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| Ticucos wrapped in corn husks... |
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| Inside of the ticuco |
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| Lucy serving up some atol |
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| Nothing quite like a bucket of pineapple juice! |
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| Fresco de Nance...they like to serve things in bags... |
Also we celebrated Alberto's birthday today!
We had Horchata at Cafe Reys~! Love it! Um....and aren't you the bag drink afficianado?? Bag of water? yes please. Bag of whatever that was? of course! LOL !!
ReplyDeleteI think it was the Atol you had at Cafe Reys...Horchata is a cold drink and ricey...Atol is warm and corny.
ReplyDeleteAnd they love to put things in bags here...water, milk, fruit juice, ketchup, mayo and the list goes on! I'll have to take pictures of some bagged products here...
Yes, you're right. It was warm and corny. Just like me! LOL
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