Virgin of Guadalupe procession video

Videos from Bicentennial Festival

Videos of my school's band performing for

El Salvador's Bicentennial Celebration.

I'm so proud of them!

Video of the Procession of the Saints

People leaving the church for

the procession to the cemetery

Band video

One of the bands performing at the

Festival of the Bands in Berlin

Artistic Festival videos

The following are three videos taken at the public boy's school where I teach. During the Bicentennial Artistic Festival bands from the school where I teach, the high school, and the public kindergarten school came to play. Being a former school band member myself, I always enjoy listening to the kids play. I've come to know the high school songs well since the Pastoral House is located very close to the high school and I can hear them practicing until late in the evening. I also know the boy's school band songs well because they play a lot in the mornings while I'm teaching. Both the boy's school and high school band consistently win first place in their division each year at the competition in Usulutan, including this year. The kindergarten band also won first place in their division this year. It makes me feel proud to live here in Berlin.

The boy's school band

The kindergarten band

The high school band

Independence Day videos

My school's band performing for the crowd

on El Salvador's Independence Day

Another video of the band playing along.

You can also see Los Negritos running around

and the flags of the other four countries

 (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras)

that have the same Independence Day.

Boy's School band video

This is a short video clip of the band at the school

where I teach playing for the celebration in the park.

The band is mostly 7th, 8th, and 9th graders.

Sounds of the rooster

Old videos clips of Chelito, my pet rooster

Chelito would always make a noise whenever I coughed

Chelito heard something and started making noises

Chelito's mighty crow

My pet rooster, Chelito, has a mighty crow

Here he crows and then tries to intimidate Barbara

Interview with Mauricio Funes

A couple days ago someone from the US sent me this link. Lucia Newman interviewed the President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, on Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera is a satellite television network located in the country of Qatar. During the interview, which is on the English language channel, they discussed gangs, violence, drugs, poverty, power, Funes’ presidency, and other topics. It’s definitely worth a watch.

Click on the link below:
Mauricio Funes - Talk to Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English

Singing at church

This is a short video of some of the singing at the church

in La Llanes before the mass. I have heard the song before

and know it as "Mamita Maria" by Pan de Vida, but I'm not

sure if they originally wrote it or if it was another group.

Procession to church

Procession to the church before mass in La Llanes

for their patron saint festival. Here you can hear

everyone singing about the Virgin of Carmen.

Attack of the ants!

I took this short video at a coffee finca.

A ton of biting ants were on the move and

trying to surround the delegation. We just

barely escaped with our lives.

Playing with capiruchos

The teacher told the kids to have a contest

to see who could flip the wooden cup onto the

stick the most times in a row

Partido de Conciliación Nacional (PCN) rally

The National Conciliation Party (PCN) political party is having a

rally next door to us right now. It's really loud. They started playing the

PNC song and Kathy suggested we all sing the popular FMLN chant,

"El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!"

(The people united will never be defeated)

To hear the entire FMLN song go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPa9HiuGYWE  

To read more about the song visit my blog from

Saturday, 4-30-11: Rio de los Bueyes

Easter Vigil videos

The beginning of the Easter Vigil. In this video Alejandro is 

explaining what we would do during the vigil:

The Service of Light, the Liturgy of the Word,

Renewal of Baptism Vows, and the Holy Eucharist

During the vigil before the Liturgy

When it was quiet we could hear the frogs

I took this video after the vigil by the stream

Good Friday Procession

Can you imagine doing this for 5 hours?

How about this?

**See "Good Friday-Viernes Santos" blog for more details**

Quinceañera video

Singing Happy Birthday to Marielos at her Quinceañera

B-day hugs

Getting hugs and an applause

B-day video

The teacher of the 4th grade class took this video of

my students and me. They're congratulating me and guessing

 how old I am (no, not 8,000). And they say they love their

English class.