Fun, vibrant and exhilarating, students put together the first National Day on October 7. Celebrating and sharing cultural experiences, students provided us with a wonderful day of interactive workshops, a delicious dinner, and an energetic show.

1 year.. 3 National days.. October 7th 2006: Latin American National Day!!!

The Latin National day started out as a nightmare for me to be honest; the first thing I thought at 8:00 in the morning when I was being woken up by crazy Latin Americans going throughout the houses with carneval whistels, percussions, a lot of screaming and steel drums was.. "Oh my god...".
After that horrific wake up call, I decided, while breakfasting, to kill each and every Latin American in a very painful way. Holding a spoon with cereals in my hand, I thought I'd scoop them to death.
Anyways, other than that the Latin American National Day (to which I will further refer as LA-ND) was quite an enjoyable and vivid day.

Throughout the morning workshops took place with stations such as Salsa Dancing, Food Workshop, Latin American Instruments, Jewelry, El Cafe and various others.
I joined the Carneval and Mask Making workshop, showing how masks are made, look like and are used during Carneval time in Brasil.

Instead of regular Caf-dinner, students had the chance to ask out other students as their dates to go to the LA-ND Dinner (which was in the Latin-like decorated Cafeteria).
The Latin American Dinner included Latin music, food of course (which wasn't really Latin actually) and a lively atmosphere.
The dinner event lasted for a bit over an hour and consisted mainly of having a dinner at a nicely decorated table with your date and taking pictures of others.. :P
(My date, by the way, was my darling Ashley from the Bahamas! ;) *Go Ashley*)

And after the LA-ND dinner, the event of National Days.. The Show.
It consisted of many Latin Danses such as Salsa, Anaconda Dance, Argentinian Tango, El Sanjuanero, Qhebradita, Paraguayan Dance, Jarabe Taptio, Tambores, Merengue, Nicaraguan Dance but also of Latin American songs, poems, a speech about the inequality between nations, from colonial times to the present in Latin America and also the Quebecois having appeared on the wrong National Day and claiming to be Latin...

The show was magnificent and full of spicy salsa and tango. :P Check out the pics on the picture-link to have more insight on the LA-ND.

That was pretty much it of October 7th, Latin American National Day!