Amigo News

All the Kids are excited to be back at the Kids Club after the Easter vacation. This week coincides with the Dia De  Niño and the children are celebrating with special activities and crafts. They are making pinatas that they can take home to display or break open. They also had a fun day playing [...]

This week at the Kids Club the children are getting ready for the upcoming Easter/ Semana Santa holidays by making and decorating papier mache Easter eggs. Painting Easter eggs is not a common custom in Mexico so it is fun for the children to learn about some of the different ways people celebrate the [...]

The Amigos de la Cruz Casa Comunidad is more than just the home of the Kids Club. We are also home to other activities such as the La Cruz Community Choir. The choir, consisting of La Cruz locals and led by Aquiles Morales, has been around for several years in La Cruz. They are [...]

This week the children have returned to the pool practicing and learning how to swim. We have enrolled many new students in the younger group that do not know how to swim yet. It is always an exciting and anxious time for the new swimmers learning the basics. The most important is learning how [...]

A favorite Mexican birthday tradition is “la mordida,” when the birthday girl or boy’s hands are tied behind their back and their face is shoved into the cake for them to take the first bite, while everyone around them shouts “Mordida! Mordida! Mordida!” Note that Mexican cakes, typically tres leches, are pretty creamy. “Mordida” [...]