It's been a while since I've posted on here because April is always a busy month for me as a college student. With a just a few weeks left until graduation, all of my big projects are due soon, there are tons of activities going on, and there's graduation to worry about. Because of all this I've been a bit stressed lately.
UMC had its 3rd annual Fiesta in the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo last night - held now instead of May because May 5th is during finals week - and nearly 900 people came to campus for the event. Crookston got 6 inches of snow yesterday which I wasn't a big fan of at first, but it wasn't too cold out and the snow was actually very pretty. The turnout of 900 for the Cinco de Mayo celebration was great considering the fact that it was snowing all day, and in mid-April no less. I was one of the many students who volunteered to help with the event, which included a marketplace, children's activities, a Mexican supper, a fiesta celebration, and a family dance. I helped with the children's activities and helped kids color wooden maracas, which was great because I like working with kids. Helping kids and going to the fiesta, which included dances from various parts of Mexico, really helped lift me mood and destress a bit.
One of the things that caught my attention during the Cinco de Mayo celebration was a video that was playing repeatedly about life in Mexico for a family during the children's activities. At one point in the video, the narrator was talking about how their mother said that chemicals on their crops were ruining them. As someone from an organic farm who also tries to support the conventional side of farming, it was interesting to hear that. I'm not certain that there what the video was saying was actually happening, and it was just a brief comment, but it is still something that anyone who paid attention to the movie could have heard.
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