Mátyás Király Halloween Party

I helped organize my school's very first Halloween party this year. The kids dressed up, bobbed for apples, made toilet paper mummies, and the older kids stayed for a dance party.

The biggest surprise was when Jon and I showed up dressed up as a Jack-o-lantern and a ladybug because no one knew that you could dress up as anything for Halloween. Everyone, including my colleagues, asked us, "Why aren't you scary?!" Everyone else was a witch, ghost, vampire, or dead. It was funny to find out what little details of American culture had caught on and which ones had slipped through the cracks. I guess that's why we are here!

Pumpkin Carving Party

Jon demonstrates how to carve a pumpkin

Peter carves his first pumpkin

Tomi and Monica-Sophie

Laura shows off our homemade caramel apples

A lovely walk home from school