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WORDS OF THE XXXVI MEIGA MAJOR CHILD

We reproduce the words pronounced by the XXXVI Meiga Mayor Infantil, Ainhoa Souto Arístegui, on the occasion of the celebration of the Proclamation Ceremony and Imposition of Bands, held last March 30th.

“Goodnight:

Authorities

50 Meiga Mayor

Board of Directors of the Association of Meigas de las Hogueras de San Juan

Board of Directors of the Promoting Commission of the Bonfires of San Juan

Meas de Honor 2019

Children’s Honor Game 2019

Major Meigas of previous years

Children’s Honor and Meignal Honors from previous years

Ladies and gentlemen

I am a person of marked family traditions, both Galician and Basque, which from the cradle have instilled in me my elders.

From the daycare center I have been celebrating the magical night of San Juan with my friends. Every year, without missing, fulfilling the traditions and rituals of the burning of the previous year’s bouquet, the search for herbs and flowers for the bouquet, leaving it in water with dew, washing my face with it the morning of San Juan and jumping bonfire. Rituals that my mother and father have instilled in me since I was very small, with whom, with the permission of everyone here, I want to say “thank you mom and dad, what for me and my friends was nothing more than a simple game and Fun to come true and a very special sense to my 8 years ”

And I say 8, because a year ago something happened that would mark me forever. To my aunt Toto, a friend proposed to her if I would like to be a Children’s Honor Meal of the San Juan Bonfires 2018, my uncle Tio Lis explained it to me when I returned home and I told my parents that I would like to accept the invitation .

Well, here began to change my life.

Today, a year later, with the proclamation and imposition of the band as the 36 Meiga Mayor Infantil, last year’s dream is made of a very big reality.

It is a pride to be able to represent my city, La Coruña, this city of blue, glass and sand, but above all of fire and taste of the sea, full of traditions around the night of San Juan.

I want to thank two very special people, who have marked a lot in my “the feeling” as Meiga. To Mr. José Eugenio Fernández Barallobre, Cheché, and to Mrs. Conchita Astray Gómez. Thank you, without your teachings and advice I would never have gotten here. I would never have learned that when you have the luck and the honor of being Meiga you are already forever.

I also want to thank each and every one of those who have made possible with their election that I am now the Senior Mother Meija.

I do not want to end without saying that during my “meigado”, before and now, I will do everything possible to transmit these traditions to the whole world and to live the party of the night of San Juan as it should be.

Good evening and that LONG LIVE SAN JUAN!

Ainhoa Souto Arístegui,

Meiga Mayor Infantil 2019 “.

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