Halloween at the International School

I had planned a Halloween day for the last day and all went well. The kids enjoyed it very much. That was a whole adventure in itself. Being me, I had to plan things out and get materials and the needed things in advance and so I could make my costume and not stress. Being new to Lampang I knew that simple things would take more time than usual and I was prepared for this. Luckily I had David, another American from Millikin U., helping me out. He has been in Lampang for about 3 years and he knows where to get things. Him being American also helped because I soon found out that because other teachers were from England, South Africa, etc. they did not really want to take part in the festivities. I tried to stress as much as possible that it is just a day for the students to have fun, its for the students, etc. Whatever. I understand that as Americans we have made a huge thing out of the holiday that no one else celebrates, I get it. But the kids really want to celebrate it, so we do. David and I planned to be 'classic' halloween costumes. He was a ghost and I was a witch. We taught them how to say 'trick or treat' in order to get candy. David and Shawn made this huge spider web and I hung bats that the students made in the trees around the spider web. We had a Halloween Costume Contest and parade as well as a bunch of games. Bobbing for apples was a fun game as well as the Mummy wrap. Then the kids played musical chairs. They ate their candy and we all enjoyed the beautiful day. After school was out we all gathered at our house to hang on the porch and enjoy that it was finally mid-semester break!!! Yeah!!
































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