Trick or Treat

Everybody has been asking me if Koreans celebrate Halloween. No, they don't. (They don't celebrate Christmas either, to save you from asking in a month or two's time). This did not stop us from having a Halloween party at work and getting the kids to dress up. The ones that did dress up were pretty cute and I should have taken pictures for you, but if you are anything like me, the moment someone starts showing you pictures of kids you don't even know your eyes glaze over and you are forced to feign interest. Hmmm... I do that with pictures of kids I do know too....
So we had all these unorganized games with the kids: dressing them up like mummies, candy toss, soccer and trying to get them to say Trick or Treat, though most of the time you would say to them, "What do you say?" and they would answer, "Candy please!"
My boss actually went all out with the candy, we had a ton of twix bars, snickers, hershey kisses, tootsie pops and something called laffy taffy. I gave in and decided to try the laffy taffy which was florescent in colour and made of pure sugar and artificial flavouring, it should have been disgusting but it was kind of addicting. A belly ache ensued after that...
The best thing of Halloween here is that our kids don't come to school every day, we have MWF kids (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and TTH kids, so we had Halloween festivities two days in a row, which means it is now Wednesday and it will be my first day of teaching actual classes. And I think we have a tourist expedition on the weekend involving mountains and a suspended bridge which I can't wait for!
Happy Halloween!