We have a long weekend, because on Thursday is the day of the Mexican revolution! O.k. Fair question why is there no University on Monday the 17^th, when on Thursday the 20^th the revolution was - I don’t know!

Anyway, me and my host family went to the mayo village la Esquina again. No it doesn’t get boring going to the same places over and over again…or does it?

Since it’s just a 2 hour drive, through the Sonora outback. We arrived quickly at our desired destination.

The last time we went to the village. We experienced something very Mexican: the day of the dead or death day. And this week, we did one - well let’s say two - new things.

First of all, we went to a 15^th birthday in a close village near by. However we also drove with a carriage, which is if you ask was way more exciting!

It’s probably best to show a picture of that carriage first. So, everybody knows what I’m - more like we - drove around. Basically it’s a tired horse, tiny car wheels and car suspension. Hell yeah that thing rocks! Every family that in this village either owns one of those things or has a car…because you see them riding around almost everywhere. Sadly, we got a tired horse. So, that it was just moving very slow. It’ walked not faster then a slow moving grandpa with a walking stick. To the horse excuse, on the carriage were riding four people.

Anyway, we where riding down the road, next to a canal - with dirty, deep water.

As we were riding along. We came to a point where we had to make a U-turn - a fatal turn. While the driver was slowly -driving- the horse backwards, we came closer and closer to the canal… Slowly, very slowly.

A shout: “ALTO“. No reaction. BAM.

Horse slips and gets pulled with the carriage and all the people on top into the cold, dirty, deep, water!

Panic and cursing.

Estefania who was sitting in the back got it the worst, she was till her beast in the water. Me who was sitting in the front, was till my bellybutton under water. For your information I’m about 1,80.

Eww, ewww ,ewwww.

However no nobody moved, everybody just looked at the horse which - luckily - only got his feet wet. If you ask me it did it on purpose. Because one minute before it drove us into the water, it looked at us with a face saying: “Ahh, you didn’t just slap me. Oh, no you didn’t!”.

A few shouts later, we then where ready to get out of the water…which apparently wasn’t to easy, because the canal is steep and the shoes very heavy full of water and mud. While standing there with wet pants, shoes and dirty shirt. I could have sworn to hear the horse laugh.

I would have loved to make a photo of this accident, but since we got completely wet, I rather didn’t want to turn on my camera, since I wasn’t sure if it got wet. Surprisingly it still works 100% perfect, I guess my jeans kept of most of the water. The 549 pesos for the pants seemed to be worth every pesos. Because the divers cell phone didn’t turn on anymore after the accident…

Back in the clinic we all took a quick - cold - shower. When it was my turn to take a shower, I had to remember myself that I only packed one pair of shoes and forgot my spare boxer shorts. Great.

Luckily, somebody in the village was so nice to lend me his shoes, fannies sister was so nice to lend me a pair of pants. And so we went to a supermarket buying new boxer shorts and some sandals for me. Yay, what an experience. Pretty unique, huh?.

The day was here by over. So, that at 9 we finally drove down to the party in a village near by.

The Mexicans celebrate the 15^th birthday of girls. Reason for that is, that they say with 15 the girl becomes a woman. On that day the girls are treated like princesses. In the ceremony, changes the father the shoes of his daughter and puts her high-heels on. This is suppose to be a symbolic for age and maturely . Once she wears her new shoes every uncle gets a chance to dance with their niece and afterwards the friends get a change to dance with their friend or girlfriend…

Good one hour later then, the dance ground is opened for everybody. Almost magically, does everybody grab their girlfriend and starts to dance while a live band plays s famous songs from Sonora. Those parties often go till 5 am. in the morning or till the last person leaves. I guess you can call us lame, because we left already at 12 pm.

That’s basically it. Gotta go - Thomas.