Today is El Día de los Muertos. If
you don’t know about the festivities, there are tons of resources out there to
give you a plethora of information. But
in short, it is a holiday where one honors someone who has passed away by celebrating
his or her life. Usually the person is a
family member, but does not have to be. There
are so many traditions connected with this simple idea. One tradición that is usually done is to
create an ofrenda or a display to
honor the person. I used to teach my
students all about El Día de los Muertos
and we used to put on a huge ordeal.
Students made their own ofrendas
and added their own cultural twists to them also. El Día
de los Muertos is celebrated in many (not all) Spanish-Speaking countries,
especially México, but it is also celebrated in many other countries as
well. Some of those countries celebrate
it on the same day and others have it at different times of the year. Some of those countries include Korea and
China.
So even though I’m not teaching at a
school anymore, I still like to create my ofrenda
every year. I think that it is a super linda tradición and I want Sofía to hear
all the stories of my Oma as I put it all together. This year I couldn’t create an ofrenda for my Oma because we have two gatitos who are into EVERYTHING and I
didn’t want it to be destroyed. Luckily
I have a really good foto of the ofrenda so that I can still easily tell
the stories to Sofía!
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