HALLOWEEN!!!

Last week Wednesday it was Halloween. This is a pretty big thing here in the USA. The little kids love to go 'Trick or Treading'. Or is it just a Hallmark event? Any way on that day we went to school to be in the gym during the lunches and as you can see in the picture American kids love to dress up. During the first lunch I was asked to be a judge in the Halloween costume competition. A great way to meet kids! But it can be very hard. The kids all lined up in the back of the cafeteria and then walked by us judges. Each of the Judges were given 3 gift certificates to hand out to whomever we thought had the best costume. There was a really great transformer, but by the time I got to him one of the other judges had already given him a gift certificate. There was also a very cute flock of sheep with a cute Sheppard girl. But the were ten in all so one 5 dollar gift card didn't quite cut it. But I really liked the Charleston dress one of the girls was wearing, she was could have come straight out of one of those old 30's movie. And then there also were a lot of scary costumes, so one of my gift cards went to one of them, although I didn't really know what or who he was supposed to be. My last card I gave to a cute little penguin.

Later that day I was invited to a real Halloween party, and that meant I needed a costume as well. Well since being a real Dutch girl I decided to go as one too. My host mother Deb was a Dutch clog dancer when she was in high school so she had the costume. Of coarse it was too small for me now but nothing a few safety pins couldn't handle. The blouse was too small as well but I used one of my own, no one here would ever notice that it wasn't a real traditional one.
The Party turned out to be a bit boring. it was at the Grand Valley Campus and kids from the town would come to 'trick or treat'. But it started to rain so not that many came by. At nine Eric and Robin and I had to go to our Young Life New Leader Training and since it is at the campus we went in our costumes. There was one other person there in his costume, so we weren't the only ones. When I came in I told them all, that we still wear those clothes every day in the Netherlands, Yeah right!