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Alfonso Alfonso | 16:26 UK time, Friday, 12 August 2011

Hi everyone,
First and foremost, I just want to say Thanks to Neil by your valuables advices on English grammar, Thanks to all the 麻豆社 LE staff members for your cooperation to make this possible and the pals that did read my entries and gave me out his comments. Thanks a lot!

Colombia, have a festive spirit. Whatsoever happen, Colombians always find one reason to celebrate. In fact, the Colombians calendar is full with lots of a do. However, don麓t make mistakes, thinking of Colombians as folks with red eyes, grey skin and rough voices.

Colombians are hard workers. Our country has been facing up hard times and meet the ends every month, turn out to be the hardest task to ours folks. Without differences between the haves and the haves not, we used to work hard, fighting together, shoulder to shoulder, to make this country a better place to live. So, where is the secret? In fact, in our festive spirit!

In short, we have: Carnival of Barranquilla, Sugar Cane Fair in Cali, Sea麓s Festivities in Santa Marta, Flower麓s Fair in Medellin, and the Harvest麓s Festivities in Pereira. Despite this long list of a do, every Colombian city has his celebration.

In my city, Barranquilla, we have our famous Carnival of Barranquilla. This celebration -as you learnt before - is full of magic, music, vivid colors, fantasy, ingenuity and originality.

Carnival is an amazing do and last four days. Haves and the haves not become one reveler. Indeed, if you came over from everywhere to Barranquilla, on those days, you麓ll get hooked on. Thus, be sure that you麓ll be here again and again, every year, through the rest of your life.

As visitor or reveler, you must make preparations in advance to enjoy four crazy days of a do. In addition to music, food and torrents of rum, you麓ll see masquerades or dancers groups known as "comparsas", everywhere day and night. See this and you will be clear what I麓m talking about.

Sounds of drums and beat of hands mixed with the acute sound of the ditch reed flute well known as "flauta de millo" are calling the dancers. Follow up this and you will learn more.

The "cumbia" is here. The hypnotic music that you can hear day and night during four days, and, after carnival, the whole year. If you don麓t hear the sound of "cumbia" just let know to the first passerby and like magic, out the blue, you麓ll have beside you, the dancer group known as "cumbiamba" .Look at .

Living the Carnival of Barranquilla is the best way to enjoy it!

I hope all of you pals, will find my writing interesting and learnt how beautiful my country Colombia, his people and folklore is.
All the best!

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Hello Alfonso!
    There麓s no doubt, you told us a beautiful history about your country. We can see that Columbian are hard workers and they always are making great festivities. Here in Brazil, as I said you before, our carnival always happens between months February and March during four days too. But along of year we have some festivals in different places from Brazil, and we generally call these festivals of 鈥渃arnival epoch out鈥. The cities in your country have carnival in different dates along of year?

    Best regards
    Adielson

  • Comment number 2.

    Hi Adielson,
    Thanks for your comment on my last entry.In fact ,the Carnival of Barranquilla have been the number one in Colombia.In general,ours cities have differents celebrations through the whole year.Whatsoever reason was;indeed,ours cities will have a celebration.Consequently,with our festive 麓spirit麓.
    All the best,

    Alfonso

  • Comment number 3.

    Hi, Alfonso,

    We enjoy your writings very much and the descriptions of your beautiful country and people but I麓m in love with your folklore, the sweet, warm, moving melody of the "cumbias" specially.

    Thanks and the best for you.
    Beatriz.

  • Comment number 4.

    Hi Beatriz,
    Thanks for your kindly comments on my writings.
    I agreed with you;indeed, when told me that you are in love with our folklore and music.It麓s beautiful!.
    I麓m working on my new entries with lots of Colombian music.Hope you enjoy it.
    All the best,

    Alfonso

  • Comment number 5.

    Hi Alfonso,

    As always your entries are very colourfull and vivid!
    You can feel from near the spirit of Colombian fests, and your people way of celebrating. I find it so nice that the Colombian people despite the hard times did not loose their joy of celebrating, but in the opposite, I think it helped them to overpass all difficulties.
    I would certainly like to attend any of Colombia festival!Maybe oe day I will!

    Best regards,

    Stela

  • Comment number 6.

    Hi Stela,
    Thanks for your comment.I麓m pleased for.
    We,the Colombians ,are optimistic folks.Despite,our hard times, we are living the life with enthusiasm,with music and joy.We are walking a long way down the road just to find out the peace.One day ,we will hear her knocking our doors.
    Hope to see you in one of ours festivities.Just let me know.Indeed!
    All the best,

    Alfonso

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