This picture is of a man filling the "globos". The paper balloon was then lit with a fire inside and flown over the heads of the crowd into the sky beyond. These globos were flown for El dia de San Juan, a HUGE festival celebrated in San Juan de Comalapa. There was a giant market, rides, comvite, globos, and decorated scenes inthe churches. There were chocobananas, granizados (essentiallya snowball with nuts and fruit in it), and a ferris wheel that not only moved quickly, but switched halfway through and moved quickly backwards. A lot of the students rode this. I chose instead to have a dance party with the teachers.
This is a picture of the comvite. Its a giant circle where a group of disguised people dance ALL day long. At the end of the day they remove their disguises. The Oso Carinoso was one of my favorite disguises. While the people danced, my teachers and the other students rocked out. We looked like weird gringos, but it was too fun to stop. I was glad that everyone joined in.
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