Happy Halloween

We talked about Halloween in all my class this week. We talked about being scared and scaring people and I showed the students how to trick or treat. They had a blast. I showed them this video one of my Chinese students downloaded for me. Most of the students watch "The Big Bang Theory" and they know who Sheldon is. They thought this video was hilarious!!!

I had an Halloween English corner on Wednesday. We did apple bobbing, the doughnut eating contest, pumpkin rolling and pumpkin carving. We had costumes which the students could try on. They had so much fun dressing up and taking pictures of themselves. 

On Friday, Halloween, Gary and I were both invited to Halloween English Corners. He went to one which he was in charge of. I went to another one. One of my undergraduate students invited me to it. She wanted me to give a little bit about the history of Halloween and play a Halloween game. At then end she wanted me to teach them how to make a Jack-o-lantern. 

They had people singing and other games, too.

I was amazed at the design these students put on their pumpkin.You can see where they colored in hair. Well after this picture, they actually carved in the hair. They were so excited that I thought their pumpkin was cool, that they gave it to me to take home. It is now sitting outside our front door.

This is a couple of the boys singing a Chinese song.

I am not a huge fan of Halloween except for the candy, but this has been a fun week. It was very interesting to see students who know the word Halloween, but had no idea what it was. It was like when my kids were little and they were so excited to celebrate any holiday. I remember Doug, Lizzie and Sara being so excited that they could hardly wait to go trick or treating. They would continually ask me, "Mom, is it time yet?" It was fun to see their excitement then and it was fun to see the excitement of the Chinese students.

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!