Halloween in China

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!!