So now it’s time for me to say I’M SORRY WORLD! I have totally let time pass without my noticing that it’s been almost a month since I posted an update. Since my last update a number of things have happened, which included Halloween, a day trip to some surrounding towns in the Province and a trip to Granada. Oh, also, in that time I’ve officially booked all I need for Christmas traveling. :) But I’ll give you a recap little by little, I’ll post a little bit each day to keep you in the loop until I’m caught up.
Halloween! Yea….that’s not so hot here in Spain, it was really disappointing. In college I really got into the Halloween spirit because my friends and roommate got into the spirit and decorated, while we searched for the best costumes starting when we arrived in August. Yup! We thought about it that early, haha. But here in Spain it was a little lot different. For starters, no one really seems to care about Halloween until literally like 3 days before. At the start of October I tried to look in the stores for some Halloween things and found minimal options. So I decided to wait a bit and looked again around mid- October, when you would think it is perfectly reasonable to start putting costumes out, FALSE! For Spainards it’s not important, actually, many of them really despise Halloween and the older generation really hates it because they think they are becoming to Americanized. It’s viewed as a very American holiday and the older generations want nothing to do with it. But the younger generation is starting to grow up with it and have gotten into the spirit of dressing up. And that’s what leads me to different number 2.
But the private academy I work at had a cute Halloween party for the kids. Now remember how I don’t do kids very well….yea….it went just as I expected it to. I volunteered to help out and ending up making pasta to dig for candy through “worms” and somehow ended up in the room with the kids who wanted to play games, so I had to entertain them and think of ways to not keep them from getting bored. Luckily Sarah was in there because I was losing my brain and had no idea what to do with the children. I had a plan, and when that plan didn’t work my brain turned off. But Sarah came to the rescue since she works at an elementary school here and she figured out how to keep them busy for an hour or so. Boy was I glad when that hour was over! But we told the acadamy about wrap the mummy and they seemed really excited about letting the kids wrap each other up in toilet paper. However, since it’s run by British people who have apparently never heard of this game, they had no concept of how much toilet paper you need for this activity. Upon hearing that you need a lot of toilet paper I was reassured that “yea, we have plenty!” and then followed my coworker into the bathroom where she pulled out about 4-6 rolls of toilet paper and said, “that’s enough, right?” hahahaha, nope! But seeing as you don’t seem to want to buy more, we’ll see what we can do with what we have. Well, needless to say the kids used all the rolls up in one round because who doesn’t want to help wrap someone up in toilet paper! While it wasn’t a complete success, it wasn’t a complete failure either. And the kids loved playing with all the toilet paper that was left on the ground anyways. So all in all the party was a success. We just really acted as chaparones while the kids kind of went crazy and threw the toilet paper around the room for a good 30 minutes.
Either way, the kids loved it, and then after my students finished their exams we were able to celebrate Halloween in the classroom. We read a scary story that I found online from “Scary Stories to tell your friends in the dark” from when I was a kid! They loved the story and then we did other Halloween educational activities. It was all in all pretty good.
Oh yea! I went on a Haunted tour through Huelva. Apparently there’s some houses in Huelva that are haunted, so we found this tour on a website used to find out about local events and stuff, so me and my friend Camille went and signed up. It turned out to be really fun, despite the fact that it lasted almost 3 hours. The guy that lead the tour was hilarious, and once we realized that we were from the U.S. got all excited and would ask us some questions while telling his stories about if we celebrate things a certain way, or how to say things in English. It was a really funny tour, and then we saw him the next night when we were out getting tapas with a friend. He was leading another tour group and he recognized us! It was really funny, but it was fun to see a familiar face and start to see how familiar faces become around Huelva. At the end of the tour we ended up at a “real” haunted house in Huelva and entered it with nothing a candle (cue scary bum bum bum music!). I turns out that it’s the building for youth here in Huelva that I’ve been to before, so I wasn’t scared, and nothing happened. But it was a bit of fun to be with some odd Spainards and share some scary stories on Halloween night. If I wasn’t going to go out and be at a party all dressed up then I was at least going to spend the night doing something Halloweeny. It was fun, but I didn’t grab any pictures, sorry guys! It’s just in my memory.
So that’s all for now! Another update on my trip to Niebla, El Rocio, and the Dolmen de Soto with my coordinator to come!
Much love! <3
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