

I arrived to St. Peter's Square with plenty of time to get a good spot, but the crowds were slowly starting to gather. I heard music and headed to find where it was coming from, and I found myself amongst a group of Mexican priests who wanted to praise the Pope with songs and chants of : "Arriba, Abajo, el Papa es Mexicano!" or "Que viva el Papa!!" between songs like Cielito Lindo, Amigo, and Mexico Lindo y Querido. And what do you know???, I knew the words for all three so there I was singing with them, as more people joined. There was the nun from Brasil who heard the music of Amigo and she joined the group singing it in Portuguese, after all Roberto Carlos made the song famous (I'm not sure if he wrote it).
The were also some ladies from Argentina that joined in and then more people joined in, even the Italians were humming the words and joining in the Ay Ay ... of Cielito Lindo. It was actually pretty cool and made the time go by fast, although we kept recycling the same songs over and over...