Estamos contigo

Hace 10 días. It´s been 10 days.

Two weeks ago I was assigned a project in my intercultural communication class to do a compartive presentation of funeral ceremonies in the world. I emailed some friends around the world for research help.

One friend responded that when a person dies in the Pedi culture (in NE South Africa) they mourn 3-10 days depending on who it was that died. Oddly enough, a tradgedy occured just hours after he sent me the email.

It´s been 10 days. I wonder who´s still mourning.

For the first few days I didn´t do too much mourning. I couldn´t. It was parcials week last week and school here hadn´t stopped. My emotions were so mixed. They still are.

This past Friday, the prefectos gathered everyone on campus where all the international flags onced waved in front of CIAP, but now all were gone. All flags were off their poles except for 3: the Mexican flag, the Tec de Monterrey flag, and the US. The latter 2 hung at half-mast in honor, while the Mexican flag waved high for hope.

The sign below read: En Memoria de los alumnos y profesores de Virginia Tech Fallecidos en 16 Abril de 2007. In memory of the students and proffessors of Virginia Tech who died April 16, 2007.

I dedicate this entry to Ryan, a great and loved prefecto.