It’s Halloween!

Our school has two holiday celebrations each year. Christmas is the biggest, and, you guessed it, Halloween is number two. Today the five teachers at A1 Language Academy entertained over 200 students with games, crafts, ghost stories, candy, and shrimp crackers (yes, shrimp crackers. Kids love that stuff here).

And we dressed up. Devin transformed into a one-eyed, hook-handed pirate. I became “Teacher Viking,” although Devin says that I just looked like a dirty biker wearing a Viking helmet.

Left: Devin with Hannah, 4 and Catrina, 5, and Phillip, 7. Below: Teacher Viking at the craft table with Will, 5, Carl, 6, and Wayne, 6.

The kids wore costumes too. The little ones were the cutest, but all the teachers were impressed by the effort from the older students. We had Sam, the head-to-toe mummy. Then there was Yvonne, who wore full-face paint with her witch costume, and Annie, who combed her long black hair forward for hours to look like the girl from the Japanese horror movie The Ring.

Check out the pictures below! Also, our apologies for the erratic blogging during October. Expect more frequent posts after I finish my law school applications!

Left: Devin's five-year olds from the "baby- class," Uranus: Kevin, Verna, Catrina, and Ben. All too cute for their own good. Below: Adam's girls from Galaxy class: Amy, 8, Zoe ,7, New-New, 7, and Sunny, 7.

Left: Annie, 13, and Yvonne, 13. Right: Sam The Mummy, 13.