For the past couple of days I have been hearing drumming far away and have wondered what was going on but I didn't get to find out till yesterday. There is a big fiesta coming up in San Agustin at the end of August and I want to change my flight so I can stay here and expirience it.
My host sister took me to the basketball court where there were drummers and dancers. There was about 8 guys playing the bass drum, toms and one playing the snare. They would play a beat and there were tons of kids dancing. It was so cool too see. Apparently each baranguy gets a dance trainer from Romblon who comes and trains those who want to be a part and each baranguy will do their dance at the fiesta.
When I first showed up everyone was facing the other direction and I was enjoying watching. The dancing is really good and a lot of my kids from school were dancing, it's really neat to see the culture and watch them all choosing to join and learn how to dance together, I haven't seen anything like it at home. Then I was spotted by some girls and things got complicated fast. The girls attached themselves to me and then we went to the front so we could actually see what the drummers and dancers were doing. Some of the drummers thought it was really entertaining to stop drumming and wave at me. Oh well, they weren't playing the important part anyway. lol.
I tried to take a picture of the dancers but it ended up in chaos with kids jumping around everywhere. So.... I told my students I would go with them today to practise after school and hopefully I can get some decent pictures while they are practising. It is really neat to be a part of. I sure feel more like a part of a big family here even though sometimes people don't talk to me but just look. It's a good thing that I am outgoing and will try to make friends or most of the people here would be too shy or intimidated to talk to me in English. But we make do and I am sure enjoying it.
Hopefully I get to stay till September! I have a feeling the fiesta is something I would remember for forever.
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