Alelou wrote:Water women? (I had to ask.)
Well, apparently, women that used to sell water to people, or, in this case, to bring water to the soldiers fighting. I think it's a feeble excuse to put women in the parade (instead dressing them like men, like soldiers.)
There is another figure even more laughable, the "kantinera". In the video about the children, they are the girls with short skirts that wave to the people. Apparently, being a "kantinera" is an honor. A "kantinera" represents, supposedly, those women that used to go with the troops. Now, I don't know much about that age's history, but I could swear that a woman that went with the troops and whose title wasn't "the cook", was a pro-- a woman with the task of raising the men's morale
Alelou wrote:Meanwhile, over here, we have a ceremony that can be summed up as President Obama to country: Okay, guys, time to start acting like grown-ups.
I've seen it. I envy you Americans for your politicians, they can be real idiots like any other country's, but at least, they know oratory (there are exceptions, of course,
*coughcough
*BushJr
*coughcough
*)
Alelou wrote::lol: Finally checked out the vids. So do these kids ONLY learn drum, or do they just put all the instruments away for this particular holiday?
Well, yeah, they only learn drum. I mean, they aren't students of sol-fa (music theory), just random students, and drum is the easiest instrument to play (and still, they do it horribly wrong sometimes.)
Asso wrote:Escriba, really our countries are close!
I know
I think it's because we share a lot of history