My first K-day

Good news I heard the day before Friday: “school will over by noon”, but why? Well the reason may not sound as fancy as it should be, in order to cancel classes after midday, but Friday September 9^th was K-day.

For you, my kind reader, if you don’t know what is K-day here is a short explanation: K-day is  day in which we celebrate our home, the Keweenaw peninsula, which is a small portion of land surrounded by the majesty of the Superior Lake; so in this day we celebrate every activity that yoopers do up here, (Yooper: a native from the Keweenaw peninsula, careful when first interact with this specie, they lover beer, food and snow, but most of all, they love their hometown.) these activities go from hockey played with brooms, to the competition of tossing bags of sand to a small hole located 20 ft. away from you, Frisbee golf  and food, everything that may make a yooper happy (beer is not allowed in the park in which the K-day festivities takes place, but later in KBC a massive tribute to beer is held).

For reasons of time I can’t get in details of what K-day makes me fell, but the only thing I’m sure of is that lifestyle in the Keweenaw is one of the things I’m so happy that have come to my life, I’ll enjoy this way of living for the next  two years, and hopefully , someday, I’ll share this lifestyle with my family and when I say my family I mean my wife and my kids, at least for a few days, but in the mean time I’ll spend K-day with the family  I found in Keweenaw, a family that makes me feel like I never left San Luis, Rancho de las Tunas, Minas del Potosi.