Kissing the flag

Basically, the child had to march up to the flag, bend down, say something, and then kiss the tip of the flag. The louder the kid said, whatever they had to say, the louder people clapped. As you can tell I didin´t quite get it!

day off!

February 27th 2008
Hola Today I had a day off of school, hence the title. It was all to do with honouring the Ecuadorian flag or something. It was a big event at the secondary school I went to but I haven´t seen much fuss anywhere else about it. I have attached some pictures. Basically The Kids marched in and a lot of spanish was said, they sang the national anthem and then they took it in turns to kiss the flag ... read more

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more

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