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Published: November 1st 2009
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To sum up Friday and Saturday I decided to write a blog. I have pictures - thanks to Kyle.
I taught Friday morning, and it actually turned into more of a lecture class than it was supposed to be. It was okay though. After class I came back and slept a lot. I think I finally got up around 3. I got up and started cleaning because I had students coming over at 7.
Jessi called and asked if I wanted to come up to her apartment.. she had some girls up there. I declined. I was cleaning and working on my Halloween costume.
I decided to get something to eat around 6. I was planning on going and getting something and bringing it back because I wanted to be in my apartment when my students got here. I ran into Jamey and some of his students - Fanny and Snower - and they invited me to go eat with them.
We went to a new place that I had never been. We ordered sweet and sour pork, fried corn with sugar (really good), eggs and tomato soup, eggplant, and some kind of cabbage. It was a
pretty good meal. There was a cat that came in during our meal. Everyone had said something about it, but when it walked by me I jumped anyway. Priscilla jumped too, but it was because the cat actually touched her.
I got to my apartment a few minutes after 7. My students had called me before 7 because they were already there. I let them in, and they wanted to know about Halloween. I told them that we could go up to Ms. Allen's apartment and do some Halloween stuff. They were super excited.
We went up there and watched
The Mummy, and then we made monster hands and decorated oranges instead of pumpkins. The pumpkins here aren't round and orange. We had lots of candy and hot chocolate.. it was a lot of fun, and the students enjoyed it so much. Jessi and Kyle were dressed in their costumes. Jessi was a witch, and Kyle was a ninja. Mine wasn't finished yet, so I went as "a foreigner". Pretty good, eh? Actually, that wasn't the plan, but we told everyone that.
After the kids left, I helped Jessi clean and then worked on my costume.. I'd
say I went to bed around 4 am.
I woke up Saturday morning around 8:30 I guess. I put my costume on and went up to show Jessi. She took photos of me because my costume was so awesome. I was Leonardo from the Ninja Turtles. (I think one person knew what the Ninja Turtles are.) She gave me some pumpkin apple muffins she had made. They were really good.
On my way to the teaching building I saw Kyle. He complimented me on my costume. I told him Jessi had muffins. Oh, it was raining. 😞
I got to the building and J & P (Jamey was a goth rocker and Priscilla was a carrot.) were in the lobby wearing their costumes. They walked up to the 3rd floor with me, and my students all clapped for us. They asked if we would do a performance. We said no and I explained kind of what Halloween was about. I posed for what seemed like a million cameras.
During the break Julie came and asked me to come to her classroom on the 5th floor. I did. They all were excited and clapped and took pictures.
The second half of class flew by, and then I was ambushed even more for pictures. I met J & P in the lobby again and had more pictures taken. We left together and got lunch. I bought some bread and came on back to my apartment because it was so gross outside.. plus I had a Skype date with Crystal.
I got back and showed Crystal the costume, and we talked til it was midnight her time. Her video of me was slow, so she was watching me do stuff like 2 minutes previous to what I was saying.
Anyway, I ended up taking a nap. I can't remember how long I slept, but Jessi called me around 4 (I was already up) and asked if I wanted to go around with her and Kyle in our costumes and give out candy and muffins.
We went to some of the local stores, restaurants and the vendors and to teachers' apartments. Jessi learned how to say "Happy Halloween" in Chinese. I'm not sure what it actually was, but it was cool. They were all super surprised.
We all went to eat at the crunchy rice
place. Kyle changed out of his costume, but Jessi and I kept ours on. It was fun.
After dinner Jessi and I changed out of our costumes. We all hung out with some students at Jessi's. They stayed til about 10. I went back home after a little while and chilled. I think I went to bed around 1:30.
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Amy
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How funny is it that the first picture you share of Kyle, he is covered head to toe and dressed as a ninja? He is determined to remain a mystery 8-)... it rained here on Halloween too....weird huh?