Halloween

 Happy Halloween!! (4days ago but shh). Now, I'm not normally enamored with the idea of Halloween. It's always seemed slightly like legitimized blackmail... but that could just be because i'm British and cynical. I did think however, that seeing as i'm in America and it's a really big deal here then I might as well don the hat and paint myself green. The  main party weekend for Halloween was the weekend before which I, as I may have mentioned, was on the beach in California for so I missed that.

On actual Halloween which was a Wednesday, none of us celebrated due to classes etc but I did get to see some unusual activity! We went to Independence (shopping mall) which was full of hundreds of children and their parents dressed in pretty amazing costumes. One family I saw was a  mother and child combo, the mother dressed as the empire states building with a very cute and very minuscule King Kong clinging to her side. Another family consisted of the Dad as Willy Wonka, the 'Mom' as Violet Beauregarde and whole trail of Umpa Lumpas following along side. The thing that amazed me was that these children were Trick or Treating the shops! Each with their little pumpkin cauldrons collecting as many variations of 'candy' as they could from the expecting shops.

 UNCW was in full Halloween spirit too giving us free sweets upon entering the dinning hall and ghostly shaped deserts for pudding. On the Saturday Night we heard of a Fancy Dress Halloween party going on so we had a right laugh getting ready and green. The only problem was the police had also heard of the party and it was busted before we even got there! Ah well, at least I know that next year none of the parties will be hindered by underage drinking!

P.s I'm still green.