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When Teresa fell in love and married her soldier boy she moved far away from her native home to travel the world...and while she traveled home to Fiesta; yet, missed the year long event preparation. It wasn't long before she began a yearly tradition of her own and sponsored a fiesta for family, friends, and neighbors. "Will You Dance With Me?" The Unofficial Beginning:Several years ago, Teresa's then 13 year old daughter, Dete, came home from school and announced, "I volunteered you and I to dance a Spanish dance for my Spanish language class at the class Cinco de Mayo party!" "But I haven't performed in 20 years!" Teresa cried. "They won't know that! I will dance with you, we will get some great music. We'll use our old costumes...and fake it!" Dete said smiling.
Since so much time and money went into the Spanish class performance, Teresa thought it was an opportunity to throw a party for family, friends, and the neighborhood. So, Teresa and Dete danced and entertained the language classes during a weekday, and that weekend Teresa and Dete held a Fiesta at their home... One teen exclaimed, "I've never had so much fun!" While a parent proclaimed, "This is great!" And a younger child asked, "Let's do it again!" These comments made Teresa realize that family fun Fiesta's aren't just to be enjoyed in her hometown because, families deserve a Fiesta, a party, a joy-filled shared memory... and with the right preparations children, teens, adults, parents and grandparents can enjoy preparing, hosting, celebrating, and cleaning up from...a Fiesta - a party. One thank you note from a mother of several home-schooled children wrote, "Your invitation and photos we took at the party will go in our home-school portfolio under Social Studies, which we will be reviewing with the Board of Education next week. The Fiesta was a real cultural experience...not to mention loads of fun!" Understanding that project management's life skills aren't just for industry's efficiency and effectiveness, it was natural for Teresa, as a professional project manager, to apply her professional know-how to raise the bar of the event's success... and so a family tradition continues. * * *
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"Fake it? And
with old costumes that probably don't fit?" Maybe a 13 year old can fake it,
but I can't, Teresa thought; and then Teresa thought, How often does a 13 year old ask their mother to a cultural dance with them and participate with their high school class mates? Teresa announced, "Yes! We will dance together!" Teresa had three months
to prepare, and the next day Teresa located a dance studio that she had heard had a Spanish teacher whom she hoped could teach them a dance as she had forgotten the dances of her youth. Sure enough, Antonio Mesa, agreed to teach them one of the most famous Spanish cultural dances -- Seviallanes. Next
Teresa got to work making new costumes.