My first Halloween in a place where it's not celebrated. It was different, yes...but fun all the same. In America, some girls use Halloween as an excuse to dress premiscuously. I am guilty of doing that. Here, women still dress extremely conservativiely, and Halloween is no exception. I've never worn so much clothing on Halloween...my friends thought that was pretty funny. I told them that some girls would go in fancy underwear and wings and that would be their angel costume. I, however, had white leggings, a white dress, an undershirt, my wings, and a halo...so I was appropriately dressed.
I wore my wings to school, which got the students excited. On Friday mornings, there is an assembly, and each foreign teacher takes their turn teaching phrases or sentances. This Friday was my turn. I had Gerry go on stage with me since he was also dressed up (as a Viking). I was scheduled to teach "what time is it?" "we're early, we're on time, we're late" but I also threw in Happy Halloween and Trick or treat. Luckily, everything is translated...so we told the rule that you have to say trick or treat to get candy...and you have to be in costume. Throughout the day, I was disrupt Gerry's class to go trick or treating. It was fun for the kids, gave a break in the routine, and gave a chance to demonstrate trick or treating. I made sure to have plenty of candy on hand for the kids that came to my classroom. I went through 4 bags of candy that day.
In the evening, the cheerleading coaches, Gilbert and Vince, invited me to go to a costume dinner with them. Several high school teachers (all very young and hip) were dressing up and going out to eat. It was so exciting! They were celebrating MY holiday! Vince picked me up and we went to the student apartment complex by the high school. We spent probably 40 minutes helping everyone get ready before we went to dinner. Because it is student housing, there were high schoolers in the lobby when we came down the elevator. Gilbert was embarassed to be in costume and wanted to ride the elevator back up...but we decided to face the hundred students and leave the building. The kids got a kick out of us! I was an angel, Vince was Bart Simpson, Gilbert was some Chinese villian or something, Kate was an 80's rocker, one guy was young Albert Einstein, we had Hulk, and also a rabbit.
The drive took about 40 minutes to get to the restaurant in Puzih. The restaurant was so nice and I had the BEST curry I've ever had in my life (it had kiwi in it....!). We definetely turned a LOT of heads at the restaurant, and several people took pictures of us. We were there for almost 3 hours taking silly pictures and having a great time. I was a nice time to get to know some people my age, and attempt to take my mind off Nick.
We had planned on going to my house and drinking that night...but after dinner I was beginning to get tired (and I was feeling really sad inside). Only a few of us went back to my house, picked up some beers, and went to the park. I told them I was tired and had to get up early, so I wouldn't stay out late. Vince brought his guitar and seranaded us (watch out boy, that makes us girls fall in love!). We had some beers, sang some songs, then I headed home. On the way, Vince and I looked for Xiou Hu, the puppy I found, but she was gone. Hopefully she found her family.
It was a very good Halloween...much more sober and sane than ones in the past. That's a good thing, right?
I wore my wings to school, which got the students excited. On Friday mornings, there is an assembly, and each foreign teacher takes their turn teaching phrases or sentances. This Friday was my turn. I had Gerry go on stage with me since he was also dressed up (as a Viking). I was scheduled to teach "what time is it?" "we're early, we're on time, we're late" but I also threw in Happy Halloween and Trick or treat. Luckily, everything is translated...so we told the rule that you have to say trick or treat to get candy...and you have to be in costume. Throughout the day, I was disrupt Gerry's class to go trick or treating. It was fun for the kids, gave a break in the routine, and gave a chance to demonstrate trick or treating. I made sure to have plenty of candy on hand for the kids that came to my classroom. I went through 4 bags of candy that day.
In the evening, the cheerleading coaches, Gilbert and Vince, invited me to go to a costume dinner with them. Several high school teachers (all very young and hip) were dressing up and going out to eat. It was so exciting! They were celebrating MY holiday! Vince picked me up and we went to the student apartment complex by the high school. We spent probably 40 minutes helping everyone get ready before we went to dinner. Because it is student housing, there were high schoolers in the lobby when we came down the elevator. Gilbert was embarassed to be in costume and wanted to ride the elevator back up...but we decided to face the hundred students and leave the building. The kids got a kick out of us! I was an angel, Vince was Bart Simpson, Gilbert was some Chinese villian or something, Kate was an 80's rocker, one guy was young Albert Einstein, we had Hulk, and also a rabbit.
The drive took about 40 minutes to get to the restaurant in Puzih. The restaurant was so nice and I had the BEST curry I've ever had in my life (it had kiwi in it....!). We definetely turned a LOT of heads at the restaurant, and several people took pictures of us. We were there for almost 3 hours taking silly pictures and having a great time. I was a nice time to get to know some people my age, and attempt to take my mind off Nick.
We had planned on going to my house and drinking that night...but after dinner I was beginning to get tired (and I was feeling really sad inside). Only a few of us went back to my house, picked up some beers, and went to the park. I told them I was tired and had to get up early, so I wouldn't stay out late. Vince brought his guitar and seranaded us (watch out boy, that makes us girls fall in love!). We had some beers, sang some songs, then I headed home. On the way, Vince and I looked for Xiou Hu, the puppy I found, but she was gone. Hopefully she found her family.
It was a very good Halloween...much more sober and sane than ones in the past. That's a good thing, right?
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