CARNIVAL

"There are only six days left, only six days, come on Carnival..." These are three of the prhases I' ve always repited today. Carnival is arriving!! It' s only less than a week left!! I' m very looking forwards to it. I' ve been nearly a year waiting for it! Well, you' re probably a little bit confused and thinking: "And why does she really want that Carnival arrives?" but don' t worry, I' m going to explain you the most important things about Carnival in Vinarós. This year, is from the 6th of February to the 16th of the same month, aproximately one week earlier than last year, but for me, is better. The 6th will take place the "estandartes". It' s the presentation of all the Carnival groups, so to speak. The day before, is the "Carnival Queens Gala", where all of the Carnival queens, as its name indicates, show her dresses to all the people. It' very funny and one of my favourite days, and this year, I' m going to dance with Locura' s Academy at the Gala. The dance is very beautiful and the dress we' re going to wear more! But I won' t say anything about how it looks, it' s a surprise! On sunday 8th, are taking place the "paellas". All the Carnival groups meet at the Carnival' s enclosure, better known as "casetas" for cooking paella. On monday I think that is not taking place an important event. On tuesday night takes place the Karaoke competition, where people of the different Carnival groups perform singing a song and the price for the three first winers is money. On wednesday night, people dressed up by the theme of the Carnival each year, so this year I' m going wear a pirate fancy dress. On thrusday is the famous Pijama' s night, where all the people go to the Carnival enclosure with pijama, it' s very funny and you can usually see boys with girls pijamas! On friday morning is the parade of children, were they dressed up as they want, and on Friday night, it' s the turn for teenagers and adults. This year I' m going to dress up with my friends. Three of us will wear a police costume and the others will wear the typical orange overalls for prisoners. It will be fantastic! On saturday and sunday is the parade of the different Carnival groups where they show their costumes dancing throught the street. My Carnival grup is called Locura, like the dance academy, and we always dance coreographies during almost all the parade. It' s very exhausting and your feet get hurt because of the shoes that usually are heels for girls. Finally, on monday, the last day, takes place the "entierro de la sardina", where Carnestoltes, the Carnival doll (so to speak) burns. And well, that' s all. I hope that if one day you come to see the Carnival, you' ll like it a lot!