The Last Float

This was the only video I took that turned out well all the way through. Most of the others have shoddy camera work and poor lighting, so I'm leaving those out for now.

La Chica CUUN

A while back, I posted about Mr. and Miss Law School. Well, now all of the departments have elected their Miss (and in some cases Mr.), and now they're electing "La Chica CUUN," which is the basically "Girl of the University." Turns out this is a huge deal and they have a parade through downtown Leon. Each department has a float for its candidate. And there is also two floats for the beer company that sponsors the event, one of which is the first picture. The second picture is the float from social sciences, if I remember correctly. For most of the others, I took video clips so I'll try to post a few of those. If anyone knows of a free, good, easy-to-use video editing program for avi files, let me know. I'd prefer to just string the highlights together and make one decent video rather than half 5-6 half good videos. By the way, I have little idea what exactly "CUUN" stands for, and most university students don't seem to know either, but the word "universidad" is probably in there somewhere.

Mr. and Ms. Law School

Back on September 26, they had the election of Mr. and Ms. Law School. This is a pretty big deal at the university. Students pack the auditorium. They have a variety of rounds such as a question-answer session, dance competition, and even a swimsuit competition. Some faculty members serve as the judges. There is also lots of entertainment between contests such as guitarists, a stand-up comic named Poncho, and one faculty member played the marimba. Unfortunately, this competition lasts for several hours and I was getting a little tired, so I went home before finding out who won. The next night, they had the election of Ms. Medical School (there is no Mr. Medicine). All of the schools/departments each elect a Ms. (and sometimes a Mr.) and then there is some university-wide competition for the Mr. and Ms. UNAN-Leon. I guess this is vaguely like Homecoming King and Queen at UNC. But not really.

One additional clarification: Yes, Mr. Law School candidates do the swimsuit competition too.