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!
