Tradition #1, Part Two.

As I was saying before “La fiesta Del Pueblo” is composed by many events. “EL Jaripeo” is one of them and that’s where the so called “jinetes” (riders) ride the bulls until they fall off or their time is up. While they are riding the bulls the “banda” is playing songs people request or they’ll usually play songs that will make the environment feel like home, what I mean by that is that the banda plays songs that talk about immigrants (because there is a lot of immigrants that leave their town to come to the U.S.A), the town and its people or old Mexican songs. For the most part they play the most requested songs. Another event that takes place during “La Fiesta Del Pueblo” is a soccer tournament. The winning team of the soccer tournament usually takes $5000- $7000 pesos for their team. That money comes from all the teams that participate in the tournament. We, as well, have a basketball tournament and basketball players from U.S.A travel to Mexico to be part of it. A third even that takes place is “El Castillo,” El castillo is a huge castle that is made up of pure fireworks and at the end of the night it’s fired up. The people from the town gather up to see the amazing fireworks that light up the whole sky. While the “Castillo” is being fired up, it reflects a lot of figures like: our saint, horses, Jesus Christ and many more. For the most part the figures are religious. Like in every Mexican party there has to be food and music. For this type of occasion there is more food than usual. The typical plate served during this event is called “corundas con churipo.”’The churipo is just a broth of beef with vegetables and the corundas are made of a mix of ground corn wrapped this corn leaves (first picture).  "El Baile" is the dance everyone attends and where they get to dance for hours and hours. This dance doesn't take place in a hall because so many people attend that they don't fit. (video).

 (El Castillo before)

(after)

 (Jaripeo)