Mexican Children

be on her back and she can't I it's two people two Mexican children the boy is Mateo his sister is Aurora their chickens are still scratching for breakfast breakfast for the piggies two and four big donkey and little donkey the morning air is cool so Matteo puts on this blanket called a Goran Geeta even before his draw sombrero Mateos special pet a chipmunk every morning before school Aurora braids her hair and Mattel helps Big Brother take the cows and sheep and goats to eat grass my table calls his pet goat his beer [Applause] [Music] a final morning Duty for Aurora while the Matteo helps father binds a yoke on the oxen they will work in the fields while Matteo is in school the bed cover must go out in the warm sunshine and air now a few minutes fun with baby sisters and the parrot [Music] matéo is going to get into the game a free ride on the small donkey at last time for school and goodbye to little chipmunk goodbye - mother - down the narrow street up toward the old old church built long ago by the Spaniards and into the schoolyard which the boys are sweeping at last the schoolhouse and the children in class with their teachers [Music] it is all roar astern Gallina that means him Holyoke is John three time for the girls [Music] a different kind of dance for the boys [Music] these boys are playing with boleros trying to catch the spools with the sticks after school back toward home past the old church quickly for mother is cooking tortillas large flat corn cakes for their lunch - Willem yeah yeah it's good on the job mother says they will take munch to father and Mattel puts an odd wooden saddle on the donkey father is far out across the fields with his oxen he has been plowing the field all morning long what a nice spot for lunch come to eat Matteo his big brother hears him and leaves his flock Matteo is father - here's the oxen we'll stand still if this stick is in front of them so what happy new toy Peter Asiago aurora's tortilla looks like a pancake but it makes a good scoop for her beans when you article or and it's at the end for them which I said cool water is good on a hot day father says now it is a holiday the family is getting ready to go to a fiesta a celebration in a nearby town it is a long way across the fields to the village first they come to the marketplace what a gay site a man selling tamales at sale all kinds of jars toys the kind Matteo likes I was good to look underneath the vehicle so we can give an undertaking she is a wonderful person [Music] now Aurora's turn Santa is a lettering is usually faster when you put the treatment wait a minute - so generally there will be a dance the music is already starting [Music] it is to be an Aztec dance and Matteo will be one of the dancers with costumes just like those used [Music] ah brother Matteo dances well Aurora thing but now Aurora and Matteo must leave the fiestas they have a long way to go home [Music] so they leave that with the music of the Fiesta still floating to them softly through the Twilight [Music]