Good Friday

Today school was out because of Good Friday. We celebrated by doing a traditional march through the city to the church square with the rest of the town. It was only about 3 blocks but practically the whole town was there. They had cars with speakers parked along the way playing religious music and, later, the priest's speech over the radio. At the front of the march some guys were holding up a statue of Jesus' body in Mary's lap. We got to the church square and watched a small play about the crucifixion. The priest gave a sermon and then everyone lined up to eat the small round thing out of the bowl, I don't know what it's called but in portuguese it's an "óstia". It's cool to see because literally everyone here is catholic and they think it's really weird that I'm not religious. My history teacher asked me in front of the class what religion I followed and when I told her she reacted like she just saw a ghost or something. Tomorrow we are going to see some touristic spots around Veranópolis and then sunday is Easter.