This week has been pretty fun…what did I do…? Oh yeah, I
remember…HALLOWEEN!! Now you may be asking yourself “but wait, do they
celebrate Halloween in China?” The answer is no, for the most part but yes if
your teaching at Bond schools!
Instead of teaching that day we played games. Our students
brought costumes and changed into them. They were SO cute. Two of the boys I
teach are best friends, they are always playing together, even when we see them
out of class with their parents and they dressed up as spiderman and superman.
It was great. We did face painting and got ready for the parents to come. The parents
arrived and the older class performed some songs. Then us teachers did the
monster mash…it was great. For the rest of the day we played games. In our
group Jace did trick or treating, Darci did this feel the body parts game where
the noodles were brains, peanuts for teeth etc. and then I played the cake walk
game but with candy instead. We used the monster mash song and invited the parents
to play too. It was so fun!
We also performed at the evening party. We did the thriller.
Classic, I know. But it was super fun. We didn’t practice a ton, but it worked
out and looked pretty cool. We zombie-fied ourselves and got our hair all
ratted up. We looked good! The other bond teachers did the Gangnam style dance…it
was so legit!! We had people come up to us afterwards to take pictures with us.
They also put us in charge of a haunted house and told us to
make it scary. Let me tell you, it was scary! I also happen to be a pansy when
it comes to stuff like that so maybe I’m not the best judge but I definitely screamed
a time or two. Emmaline and I were tour guides that would lead groups through.
There were some kids that we literally had to push through or else they would have
just stayed there screaming. You walk in and Max is hiding behind a cardboard
wall grabbing ankles or scaring people as they pass. Then you get to a tunnel
where Liam and Michael were in there making noises and grabbing ankles or putting
a light on their face and coming at you. Scary stuff. Then you come out of the
tunnel to see Teal sitting on a chair being grudge girl (I’ve never seen it) and
she can contort her body so it was creepy. Then you see Ashley chained to a
table with a sword and she would shake it at people as they passed. That was
one room we had some people who ran out after that point but if we could get
them past that part we would go into the next room where the twins Ali and Katy
were witches stirring a pot. Then we got to Laurissa laying on a bed with dolls
around here and a mask on her face. She would creepily get up and come towards
the kids. The scariest was Jace. He would be up on this ledge thing and jump
down and scar people half to death. Sometimes if there were young children I
would walk closer to the kids so he wouldn’t have room to jump down. There was
one time I stayed close to the young kids so Jace just stroked the hair of the
dad walking behind his son, the dad jumped and it was so funny! Then there was
Darci and Katrina who would scare them and act super creepy. It was a crazy
haunted house. Before we started when everyone else was in their spot Emmaline
and I were outside waiting and so many Asians came up to us to get a picture.
It was great fun!
This was probably the best Halloween I’ve ever had. I’ve
never gotten so into it and done so much for it. Yeah, it took more work but we
made it fun and got into it. I loved it!!
