Saturday, October 13, 2007
Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner and today I realized that I have yet to get a costume! So I decided to go shopping with a friend down the hall. This got me thinking. I know that Halloween is a day to dress up, go to theme parties, and give candy to the little trick-or-treaters, but in all honestly I have no idea what Halloween really is. I celebrate it every year and don't know why! (I hope I wan't alone in this) Sad? I know. So I decided to use a wonderful resource, my computer dictionary, and find out for myself! As many of you already know, Halloween is celebrated on October 31st. This is the evening before All Saints' Day, and is therefore also referred to as All Hollows Eve. Originally, it was called Samhain, one of the eight pagan sabbots, and it marks the third and final harvest of the year. It is also a night to remember the dead and some even think that on this night the spirit world and the normal world become one. Well, some of this sounds a little creepy to me, which I guess is why Halloween is known as a scary holiday! And trust me, I am a big wimp. I love getting dressed up and eating lots of candy and seeing the cute little kids run around in their costumes! I love decorating my house (and yes, my roommate and I do have Halloween decorations is our room!) and just getting in the mood for fall. I like to think of this as fun, not scary! Last year I went to my first haunted house and believe me, I will never go to one again! So I will just stick to the candy and cute costumes :)
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Celebrating my first Halloween is tempting and kind-off an adventure for me. All countries that were ruled by the British or influenced by them in some sense do not celebrate Halloween.
In other words, North and South America(?) are the only continents that celebrate it! Growing up, I've always heard of the festival or seen it in the movies but this is the first time I'm going to be actually a part of it and to sum it up:
Lets get out party hats out.
if u think things up here get a little creepy, u should go to mexico, or atleast near it during this time. they celebrate it to a whole new level!!! they refer to it as Dia De Los Muertos, or day of the dead. they get all dressed up and make all sorts of food like tamales and stuff and actually go out to the grave yards and eat beside their lost ones...creepy!!! but ya have fun dressin up and stuff, ha
Halloween is a huge tradition in my family. Some night, the week before Halloween, my intermediate family and atleast 20 cousins aunts and uncles all pack in my aunt's gigantic van and sneak over to my grandma's house and Tee-Pee the entire 3 acres where her house is, last year we used 140 rolls of toilet paper. Then on Halloween everyone comes to my house, and as we are all walking around trick or treating, my Grandma sneaks back to my house , using anyone that passes by, grabbing them off the street to help her, she and her mob Tee-Pees my house twice as bad as we did hers. She has even Tee-Pee'd and macaronied my bedroom.
I can't wait for halloween it's one of my favorite holidays. Going to mexico for Halloween is crazy, It's all about the day of the dead. Here it's pretty fun but there it definitely is to a whole new level. When I went there it was a day affair. Everyone wouldn't take off their costumes or garbs even to eat. They wouldn't even sleep during the day as is common with the fiesta lifestyle. They are nuts...back home in Ft. Wayne kids now have curfews from 7-9. How lame is that?
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