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Describing activities that took place in the past
I knew that this festival celebrates the spring season as a time of renovation.
We were really taken by this traditional celebration and when I was running to
take a close picture of the Voladores de Papantla, the director called us to go and
prepare ourselves for the presentation.
After a while, our director explained to us that The Dance of the Voladores de
Papantla, is an ancient ceremony originated possibly by the Totonac people who
wanted to ask the gods to end a severe drought and bring back the rain because
the people were suffering a lot.
Two years after our presentation in Tajin, Veracruz, our cultural group was invited
to an extraordinary tour out of Mexico. When I got the news, I couldn’t believe it.
The organizers of the festival in Tajin were inviting us to perform in three different
continents; in Asia, Africa and Europe. I couldn’t believe it. When I gave the news
to my parents, my mother was drinking water and
she dropped the glass. She was really surprised,
(just like myself; and we both were Flled with joy
and happiness).
Luckily, we all got permission from our parents and
we began our extraordinary journey.
Our Frst stop was in China, then Ghana in West
Africa and after a while, in The Netherlands in
Europe.