A Mexican Sweet 15 – a bluejean girl becomes a woman - In the Mexican desert, full of hardship and dust, the traditional quinceañera is a chance to be a princess for a day.

The day of the quinceañera dawns raw and blustery, and clouds of dust scud along the main road of this quiet village. But outside the cinderblock church, and on the well-worn basketball court in the center of town, young girls are already threading long garlands of handmade blue paper flowers, and their older brothers are scaling ladders to stretch the strings overhead.

Today is Seraya Butron Rodriguez’s 15th birthday, and like so many young Latin American girls, she’s been dreaming of her quinceañera, or “sweet 15″ party, for as long as she can remember. Part sacred, part secular, the quinceañera marks the entrance of a young woman into adult society, and is thought to mix indigenous traditions with those of Spanish Catholic missionaries.”*

*From: http://www.csmonitor.com
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