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Halloween

    Qiqi Lin    

       This Halloween is my second times in the United States to celebrate, it's still very interesting. On that day, everyone dressed up, even the pet is no exception. Can be a monster, a witch or movie character. This time the Halloween, my mood was very different with last year.

       That day was raining day. In the beginning the day I was so upset, I thought Halloween had become boring because of the rain, but obviously was wrong. I still had fun on that day. I went to the ESL Halloween’s party like last year, but I not only met different friends also saw different costume at the party. This gave me different feelings from last year. Like I saw a Harry Potter couple, Mickey and Minnie, Statue of Liberty, etc. And the most excited part is carve the pumpkin, this is my favorite thing to do on Halloween. After the ESL Halloween party, I followed the parade. I saw some amazing and stranger costume than ESL party, Even a little baby. Anyway I love celebrate Halloween in U.S. A.

Halloween Day 
 kyung jin

   This is the third Halloween day since I came here in the U.S. My family are not interested in
Halloween day but we have prepared chocolates for children who came to my home for "trick or treat." From little children to teenagers, around twenty children came to my home at this Halloween day. We enjoyed looking at their various custume such as angel, spider man, cinderella and skull mask with black cape, etc.

My First Holloween Day in U.S

By YeonSoo



Have you ever imagined to spend Halloween in New York? I've been always imagined spending Holloween in New York City.  So it was an opportunity of to spend Halloween in New York this time. I made a plan to spent Holloween in NYC one week ago. Our plan was we all wear a horse face mask and walking like a horse. I and my friend was so excited.


But when we arrived at NYC. The costum didn't have a lot of mask. There had only The president of Obama's mask and the shop was so crowded. We was little confused because that was not our plan and we are disappointed. But we changed our plan we all bought The president of Obama's mask.
And we all wore the mask and walking the NYC street!!! There was so crowded and most of people wear a costum. The everywhere of NYC was doing big party.


And our group was very popular in the street!! Many people want to take a picture with us.
We made very big memorize in NYC. But weather is not good so we are all cautch a cold.
It was unforgettable memorized to me. :) I recommend you should send Holloween in NYC one time in your life!!!!

 

Awesome Halloween Day

By:Xin

   Have you ever spent Halloween day in America? Can you image how fun it is? This is my first time to prepare and celebrate Halloween day.In that day, I went to the ESL Halloween party and parade.

   First of all, I went to ESL Halloween party and celebrate with my international friends and professors. Even though it was raining in that day, but it did not influence our mood at all. Most international students came to the party on time. We ate snacks and took picture with each other. There were many kinds of costumes, such as enchanter,angel，Mickey mouse and so on. Some students liked to walk around and showed their costumes, other students liked to carve the pumpkins. Before we finished the party, we had an award ceremony. Some students got award because they wore fantastic and charming costumes.
   Next,I went to the parade with my friends. It was really awesome.I have never seen this kind of parade in my country. I saw a lot of interesting and scare costumes.Before the parade starts, policeman blockaded a street for the parade. Even though people wore scare costumes,they did not make a mess. They walked and celebrate orderly. It was a nice scene which is still in my brain.
   In conclusion, I had an awesome Halloween day, I re
ally enjoyed it.

By Renan Sales

My First Halloween Party

   When I was in my hometown I have heard and I have searched on the Internet about the Halloween, but I have never experienced that holiday in my life. However in this year everything was different, I am in the United States, so I have been in a Halloween party and now I will tell you how was my Halloween day.

   Two days before that holiday, I talked with my friends and we decided to wore a unusual costume the Kiss Zombies costume , which meas do the band Kiss make-up  and look like a Zombie. It would be fun and different but we did not dress it.

  So what was happen with us? We bought the make-up and everything that we needed to did the costume, but when we started to did the make-up, we saw that special make-up was very hard to did. then we decided to change it to an skull costume. We only did the make-up but it was cool and scared.

The Brazilian scary Skulls

  Finally,  when we were ready, we went for the ESL Halloween party at the VH annex. There, we danced, drank soda, ate snacks , talked in English and took many many photos. I really enjoyed  my first Halloween party at SUNY New paltz and I hope to be in many typical American parties, holidays and festivals.

My first halloween party!:D

 By. Jiyoung Lee

    This halloween was my first halloween day. However, my country has no halloween. So, halloween is very unfamiliar to me. Therefore, I did not prepare anything. 

    When I arrived halloween party, most friend wore a variety of costumes such as Harry porter, elf, devil, robot and animals. It was so amazing.  I took a commemorative photo with my friends. I think it was great remembrance to me. 

   At night, in the main street, a lot of people paraded through the streets. There are also a lot of amazing costume. And I decided to were costume next halloween. 

by Nubia :)

       Halloween.. Can you imagine how I was waiting for this?
In Brazil, we don't celebrate Halloween. Some people go to the parties with costume, but it isn't usual. But, a lot of the movies that I have seen in my life show how important it is here in America, with pumpkins and costumes, trick or treat and things like that.
      My first Halloween here was very nice, but as nothing can be perfect, it was raining. My friends and I started to prepare the costumes early, a lot of them painted their faces, they became very scary. I didn't wear scary costume, because I was a magician, and I became proud because I maked the hat by myself, it wasn't so good, but I liked.

   So, my friends and I went to the ESL party and it was amazing. All of the international students wearing different costumes, some of them were scary, others were cute, but the important is that we could see the effort of them to enjoy the celebration.

    When it finished, we went to the dorm and await to the time to go to the parade at the main street. But it was raining so much and we decided don't go. We stayed awake for a long time just talking and looking to the costumes of those who passed by us. It was an awesome day!

Halloween Day!!!

By Yuka
    
     How was your Halloween day? My Halloween was very good! I enjoyed with everyone even though the day was raining and cold.

     For Halloween, I chose to be a ladybird. My suite mates decided my costume when I went to shopping with my suite mates. I didn't expect I become the ladybird. For the first time, I was really ashamed to wear the costume, but my suite mates really liked my costume of ladybird. Therefore, I had confidence to wear it, and I became to like the ladybird  costume.

     In Halloween day, I joined the ESL Halloween Party. I was surprised because everyone was wearing various kinds of costumes such as scary, cute, and funny. I liked everyone's costumes. I really enjoyed taking pictures and talking with everyone. 

    After the ESL Halloween Party, I went to see the big parade of New Paltz. There were many cute kids in the main street, and they were wearing many kinds of cute costumes such as anime characters and animals. The parade was started when some children began to playing the music with their instruments. After the children passed in front of me, I followed the children. Then I walked with the children in the main street. Not only I but also many children and adults were following to the children. I really had fun.

     Finally, I went to see the Pumpkin Contest (I don't know the real name of the contest.) The pumpkin contest was holding at the Bakery shop in the main street. There were many different pumpkin carvings. They were beautiful, minute patterns, and funny. I think the people who made the pumpkin carvings have very high skills of that. I really liked the contest. 

     

     It's fun to choose the costume and see everyone's costumes. Also. I like to see pumpkin carvings. Actually, I made it before the Halloween day. I hope next time I will make a very artistic pumpkin carving! Halloween became one of the very fun events for me. I can't wait next year's Halloween!!

My first halloween

by Djalma Oliveira

Do you know who the “bird green latern” is? No? Yeah, it is normal… My costume for my first halloween was this one. You can see it in this picture where one handsome guy is wearing it. I need to say that my experience was amazing, I could learn more about this famous party and so known here in America. When one time per year, all the students and professors choose and wear one. I think that it is amazing, because everybody is free to wear what want and no one gets shy.

The handsome guy :P

October 31th, it is the most expected date in October, the Halloween. The day was rainy, but the rain couldn’t disturb our happiness, I put my costume before the ESL party and started to walk inside of my Hall, in the first moment I was so embarrassed because it was my first time, but minutes later, the shame was over… I and my Brazilian friends went to the ESL party and I could see one wonderful decoration, many details, like typical pumpkins and ghosts. Moreover I can forget the wonderful costumes that my international friends and professors were wearing, the party was so funny. Thereafter I went to the streets to see the typical parade, it was nice to see many families together and enjoying the date. And for complete the night, I was still wearing my costume hahaha I, Qiqi and her sisters went to the Tokyo Sushi, delicious Japanese food with wonderful peoples.

I and Qiqi in the Tokyo Sushi

Therefore I really enjoyed a lot my first HALLOWEEN. I would like to do parties like this, when I will come back to Brazil, I know that everybody there will like. Living these experiences In America is so important for me, because in the future I will have a lot stories to talk :D

Halloween DAY

-BY KUAN-WEN , TAO

        Halloween ?  I had an experience in my high school year. My school had the Helloween dance party for each year. We celebrated at night to 10pm, atcually, everyone had to attend it. haha!! In past, I wore black dress. People were crazy at the party. They were shuting, dancing, jumping, go around the circle at the dark room AND with loud pop music.  We used auditorium as our party place. We all wore different kinds of costumes. Some people were very creatively.

        However, this year in US. I didn't go to ESL party and also main street. I was watcing my Korean drama and sleeping in my room. Also I was chatting with my Taiwanese friends. I felt lazy. Because of rain, I decided not to go out. I felt no interested to think about what I should dress about. Another reason, it was too late to think and decide to order the costume. By the way, I gave up early. Because of lazy, I gave me a day to relaxing.
 

        In fact, I am planning for next year Halloween. I will dress up for next time. I have an idea to do with my costume. Not sure will change or not. Just see you there next Halloween, I will be there with you guys unless you are still here in New Paltz.  Ha!!!!!!

My First Halloween in the U.S.

 

 

 

         Where is the best place in the world to celebrate Halloween? Definitely in the U.S. I came from

 

a country (Saudi Arabia) where Halloween is not a big holiday, I was insanely excited about

 

experiencing a proper Halloween in New York City. Me and my friend  carve a pumpkin at our

 

university I could not ask for a better activity. Carving a pumpkin actually involves some techniques

 

that I cannot wait to share with my non U.S. friends next year. It was very entertaining and satisfying

 

to find out how evil our pumpkin looked like once we put a candle in the middle. Most of my

 

American friends seemed to be over Halloween because they have been celebrate it so many times.

 

But I felt like a little child about to experience her first real Halloween ever. I like the children's when

 

they came and nock the door asking for candy a trick or a treat. But overall, this Halloween 2013 was

 

unbelievable and I am looking forward to sharing this experience with my friends back home.

 

 



My First Experience in Halloween

My First Experience on Halloween

by Akari Kurihara

      Have you ever experienced Halloween? On October 31, I experienced on that day for the first time in America. In Japan it is not so common to wear a costume and make up. My friends and I were hard to choose one costume because there were a lot of kinds of costumes in America. A wee before on that day, we decided to be a Mickey and Minnie. I bought them on line.
     There is a long story to get them. I ordered the costume at Amazon but I mistook the shipping. So I chose the normal shipping, it means it never arrive before Halloween!!!! I was very sad to notice about that. Also, I couldn't cancel it. If I want to cancel the product, I could do after it arrives. So I ordered the same costume at another online shop. Finally, I could get that on October 29.

     The ESL Halloween Party was held the the VH Gym. I wanted to make up like a minnie, but I was not good at making up, so I became a strange minnie mouse. While I was in the party, I took a lot of picture with my friends. My friends were also wearing a cute and scary costume. Everyone was unique and it was interesting to look at them.
     The Party was very fun for me. I could get a present as a best minnie. It was a great experience that I will never forget.