These are pictures of several other teachers I work with at UABC from a Mexican Fiesta one of them, Icela, threw in September about a month after I arrived in Mexicali. It was a very cold rainy night, not very typical for Mexicali, in September. I was disillusioned and very cold; since everyone had told me how hot Mexicali was, so Icela let me borrow the shawl I’m wearing. Most of them dressed in traditional Mexican attire and we ate tamales and sang Mexican ‘baladas.’ I didn’t know any of the ballads, but they had fun trying to get me to sing them. One of the songs, “El Cachanilla” is about this area in Baja California. I searched out the song and lyrics online to help me learn it and try to speak this crazy Spanish language a little better. A cachanilla is a desert flower that grows in this area and people from Mexicali are called “Cachanillas.” Most areas of Mexico have a nickname for the people who live there.
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