Hallowhatever

Here are my little terrors dressed up for Halloween.

3rd Grade

Witches and Wizards

 Princesses and Fairies

 Gorden the Fox

 He picked this outfit because it was warm!

4th Grade

 Lucy the Birthday Girl

 Ten the Polar Bear Devil?

Feury as Darth Vader

Chaos as usual.

 Jason the Photobomber. He asked me the day before if he could wear a paper bag on his head for a costume. Why not?

Another funny thing about Asia (speaking only of what I have experienced: China and Korea) is western holidays. It's just a knockoff really, like so many other things here. Costumes? ok! Candy? we got it! There you have it, an instant Halloween celebration.  I told the kids they could dress up, and as you can see by the pictures, most of their outfits were just random costume items, not necessarily a matching outfit.

That morning, I went into our director's office to get the candy for the students. On the table sat 3 large bags of small hard candies, similar to the kind you'd throw at a parade. As we were prepared to take multiple handfuls, the Chinese secretary informs us that we are to only give the kids 2 pieces each.
"There are 1600 pieces, you can give each student two. The rest will be used for the assemblies."

Seriously? Two dinky little cough drops? I was dreading going into the classes. They're going to freak out. They go to this expensive private school and all the school gives them is two pieces of candy at the Halloween party? Both of my classes were so excited to be  dressed up and to not have actual class, they were thrilled. We watched some Shrek Halloween movies as they munched on the snacks and candy that they brought to class. It was kind of cute actually. It was more like Valentine's Day. They all brought candy for each other. When I gave them my measly little candies, they were just tickled. I'd love to see how that would go over with American kids.

In other news, I've been very sick. It started two weekends ago as a horrible stomach bug (use your imagination) and as that went away within a week it turned into a sore throat, cold, and now a horrendous cough remains. I'm hoping that with another restful weekend, I'll be back to normal by Monday. I'm getting cabin fever just sitting around in the apartment! Time to explore............