Wednesday, October 3, 2012

I found the video about the El Velador to be rather interesting. At first, I thought it was a little boring and I was contemplating on whether or not I should turn it off and GOOGLE a summary about and then type my response. But I didn't, I keep watching it and it seemed to be pretty good. It was really sad and hard to watch him set up his "bed'. It didn't even look like a bed, it was basically four buckets, a piece of wood, a mat and a blanket. It was so sad. But he was doing it from the goodness of his heart I guess. I also found it interesting that the one lady and her little daughter I assume, kept coming back what it seemed like everyday to clean and wash the mausoleum. I found it to be a sign of a respect and to keep who's ever spirit in there alive with them. It was just so sad to hear about all the deaths that happen and so young. The number of deaths was just disturbing and unbearable. Listening to all those people cry and mourn over deaths was just too much, it really touched something and made me feel bad for all those families who lost someone special to them.