Fiestas Patrias!!

Posted by Lisa on October 16th, 2007 — Posted in Activities

Fiestas Patrias’ week long celebration centered around September 18th- Chilean Independence day. This year was the first time that I was in Chile to celebrate. To start off the celebration, I went to the Escuela Manuel Rodriguez- which is the local school for children who are deaf, blind or have special needs. The school is one of the charities that we help out. For the holiday, they put on a show with music and dancing. One of the items that we bought the school was musical instruments, which they love. The marching band was pretty good (though not as good as the Sedgwick marching band) considering they had some deaf children playing the instruments as well.

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We also went to an asado (bbq) at our friends ranch
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Went to the rodeo where my friend Lyn competed for the first time. She came in first place! Though technically she also came in last, since she was the only one competing in the women’s division.
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2 Comments

Comment by terry

Yea! Lisa’s back

Posted on October 16, 2007 at 7:21 pm

Comment by Cara Resig

A post, a post — and a good one to boot! The bbq looks like fun and the rodeo doesn’t look so bad either! What a life!

Posted on October 17, 2007 at 9:27 am

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