Photos: Sergio Betancort
The festivities in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of El Mojón kicked off on Thursday night with the reading of the proclamation by the neighbor Sandra Tolosa Robayna, who was very supported by family, friends and neighbors, who came to the social hall of the Guenia Sociocultural Center to listen to the experiences and anecdotes that the herald was telling with great ease during her intervention.
Born and currently residing in El Mojón, Sandra Tolosa said that she had a very happy childhood in the town, where everyone today continues to form a large family. Precisely, from her childhood she related how when she reached school age she attended school in La Villa de Teguise in the morning and afternoon, since there was no unitary school in El Mojón.
For this, she explained, she had to travel in the school transport that they had to take at the entrance of the town and travel a kilometer until one day the parents said that the bus did not pick them up inside the town, they did not get off the bus when they returned to class. And given the refusal of the students, the driver took them back to the bus station but, given the proposals of the parents, the next day he picked up the students in the heart of El Mojón.
Memories of the festivities
The herald also said that, for the festivities, her grandparents prepared a special meal with a tasty stew and that the smells perfumed the entire town. In the dessert, she narrated that the rich torrijas, very traditional in the festivities, were never lacking. However, with respect to the premieres of dresses and shoes, she stated that they did not always come true due to the economic situation of the time, although as her mother was very good at sewing, she always managed to make her a suit. The shoes, however, were more complicated
Sandra Tolosa had always been attracted from a young age to everything related to hairdressing and when she finished her primary studies she told her parents that she was not going to continue studying because she wanted to be a hairdresser. Thus, she went to Teguise and started as an apprentice (sweeping hair), until little by little she progressed in the profession, but not happy with what she was doing there she moved to Madrid, enrolled in an academy and after a few years, when she got her diploma, she returned to Lanzarote and started working on her own until today.
The herald stated that she has never wanted to leave the town where she was born and that she continues to be very happy with her family and neighbors. When the festivities arrive, she said that she enjoys them as much as she can, although now her free time and the two daughters she has take up a lot of time. Even so, she participates in what she can.
Recover values in young people such as respect and education
If there is something that Sandra Tolosa pointed out that she misses and that she would like to be reinstated is working with young people, to recover the values that she has always preserved and practiced, inherited from her grandparents and parents, such as respect, education and knowing how to be.
At the presidential table, Sandra Tolosa was accompanied by the Councilor for Festivities of the Teguise City Council, Olivia Duque, who in her speech encouraged the neighbors to enjoy a few days of coexistence on the occasion of the festivities. Next, Alberto Cabrera, president of the Sociocultural Center and a young man involved in carrying out, together with his colleagues on the board of directors, the events that they have prepared with such enthusiasm in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, spoke.