Favorite holiday

Well, I think that my favorite holiday is september 16th., Mexico's Independence Day. Maybe you'll be asking: "What's so special about that day?", and I'll politely answer you that the whole month of september is considered our national month, kids in schools make tiny little mexican flags using paper and wood sticks, in many corners and vehicle passages you can find people selling flags of different sizes, some for use in cars and some to put up on your house. It's always nice to see so many cars with little flags in the radio antennas, you can feel your heart pumping with patriotic pride and fervor on those sightings.

The night of september 16th. it's also very fun 'cause in every city and town of the whole country we practice the ceremony of "El Grito" to rembember that in that same day but in the year of 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla started the independence war calling everybody to fight using the sound of a bell in the town of Dolores. That same night we can enjoy the fireworks while eating some traditional mexican dishes like tamales, pozole or tostadas.

It really is one special ocassion in wich everyone can feel the love for this country, with it's problems and deficiencies, but in the end, it's still our land and we should care and fight for it.