El Dia de La Madre

Peru really makes Mother's Day Special. It is not only a day of plastic roses, cheesy cards and chocolates. At Fe y Alegria, I found a wall celebrating the mother, full of writings, poems and drawings. On Friday, there was a special assembly where many of the students put on dances and a couple students sang songs to commemorate this day.

Fabiola performed the Mexican dance with some of the other students' in Professor Diana's salon.

The dances were fantastic! There were folkloric dances, dances from the mountains of the sierra, Ayacucho, Mexican dances and many others. All of the costumes had the brightest colors and many adornments of hats, scarves, flowers, belts, jewelry and even whips (which they used in a courtship dance!)