Hello!....

This week is called the love week. Although some people does not like, other people loves the idea to celebrate their love or another just think is nothing special. I know again I am going to talk something related with love, but this time I want to explain how we celebrate in Mexico San Valentines Day! :D

In Mexico San Valentines Day is a new celebration, I do not know exactly since when we started to celebrate it, but probably it started in the earlier years of 1990 because at that time the Mexican Government and the American Government were more open to the free commerce between this two countries and a new stores as Wal-Mart entered to Mexico as a new market, thus wit this new bridge the American Celebrations entered to my culture. The Mexican culture it seems to me like a love culture because the man always take care about his lover and who to let her know his feelings. For example, In the oldies movies called the "Gold Mexican Movies" you can see the guy always trying to flirt the girl with songs, give her presents, compete with another guys or just giver her poems to get her attention. One special way to get her attention and probably earn more point’s whit his lover is the traditional "Serenata". Before the "Serenata" was really a really big activity to get the love of a girl because the guys competed to get her attention they bring the "Mariachi" and they started to sing a song and who has the best Mariachi and Song for sure has more opportunities to get her love. Well, that was my explanation about who the guy gets the love of his lover. Whoever nowadays we celebrate Valentines Days and it means a Friendship and Lovers Day. Actually the guys send a roses bouquet and some special present to their lovers and some of them send secret letters with poems and of course some of them bring the "Mariachi" or a group of friends with musical instruments as "Mariachi" to the school, work or house of their lovers. I think it is really romantic and special and definitely this year I am going to miss the secret roses, "Serenatas" and poems. Finally for friendship we usually send some letters and give those candies or special presents to our friends.

I hope all of you guys will enjoy your Valentines Day in the way you most like to celebrate it. :)

This is a video of an example of “Serenata” it is really diferent but it is the idea.
The singer is Pedro Infante y Luis Aguilar the most famous actors of the “Gold Mexican Movies”...