Baci Hands

There was a baci ceremony at school today to celebrate the start of the academic year.  

I wrote in more detail about the baci similar ceremony  held last year in another blog post.

Baci means spirit enhancing or calling.  After the main ceremony participants bless each other and tie colored strings around the wrist of another person.  The cotton string is wafted over the wrist, first away from the body, as the person asks for bad things to leave and then towards the body as the person expresses good wishes and blessings for the person to whom they are tying the string.