Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Feliz día de San Juan
Today I miss not being in Spain and Galicia. San Juan is celebrated with singing and dancing around bonfires that are built up with objects or messages on paper of things you would like to put behind you. The fire is purifying, and later in the evening you can make a wish and jump over the fire. In the morning, after soaking roses or other flowers in water overnight, the cleansing is complete when you wash yourself with this perfumed liquid. During the fiesta on the beach or in your neighbourhood square, sardines are cooked and eaten, and aguadiente is drunk. Somehow I can't see this being started in Saskatoon, nor celebrated with the same fervour.

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