So the 27th of February is the Dominican Republic´s Independence Day, and practically every town celebrates it with a parade/march of some kind. The schoolchildren celebrated it this past Tuesday with their teachers (because the teachers live in a different city and didn´t want to come to our town on a holiday). However our community leader wanted to celebrate on the actual day, so he told his students from the before school program and the rest of the community that they should come to the march on Friday morning at 8. By 830 there were only the children in their uniforms waiting to march, so we started off, and I feared it would just be us marching around town (many people had told me that they were going to other cities for the day where the festivities were more exciting and lasted all day). However as soon as we began walking through the community other people joined us and by the end of it we had a huge group of people marching in the hot sun, chanting, singing and playing the drums on pots and pans. We finished the march in front of the community center where they sang the national anthem and the children did a coreographed march. Here are some of the photos:
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