Today we’ll be going to party with our friends in Jesús María to celebrate Mexican Independence Day<\/b> (which everyone will be celebrating today and tomorrow) (actually, the celebrations have been going since the beginning of September, let’s face it!)!<\/p>\n
To get you in the mood wherever you are, I thought you might enjoy this video which shows the words of a song very familiar to us – the Mexican national anthem<\/b>. In the video the words are in Spanish with English below.<\/p>\n
The words were written as a result of a competition and a very determined fiancée.<\/p>\n
Apparently, Francisco González Bocanegra didn’t want to enter the competition, because he wrote love poetry, which was nothing like a country’s anthem. His fiancée locked him into a room and refused to let him out until he gave it a try.<\/p>\n
After four hours he slipped 10 verses of Mexicanos, al grito de guerra<\/i> (Mexicans, at the cry of war<\/i>) under the door, securing his release and eventually winning the contest.<\/p>\n
The music was the result of another contest, won by Jaime Nunó, a military band leader.<\/p>\n
The anthem has been officially translated into several of Mexicos’s other languages – Chinanteco, Hña Hñu, Mixteco, Maya, Nahuatl and Tenek.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for more Mexican stuff tomorrow!<\/p>\n
[If you can’t see the video below, jump to this page<\/a>]<\/p>\n