Because Getting a Real Job Seemed Like a Bad Idea.: Halloween at Casa de Paz

Halloween... Well, there wasn't much of a Halloween done here for me besides devouring a bag of candycorn sent by my mother this past week and having the kids carve the pumpkin that Kevin found at Market. It actually turned out really well for being the strangest pumpkin that I have ever seen. It very likely could have been some other type of gourd, but it served it's purpose extremely well as our attempt to celebrate Halloween. I guess that pumpkin was more for us than it was for the kids.

It was so cute however watching the kids rip out all of the guts from the pumpkin. They had never really seen a jack-o-lantern before and for a lot of them they were under the impression that Halloween is BAD, EVIL... and so on. I guess it began as a pagan holiday but so did Christmas. I guess in that respect we should think Christmas is evil. Most of these pagan holidays have conformed into merely traditions or into religious holidays like Christmas. I tried to explain to some of my kids in Class last week how kids in the US celebrated Halloween, but they stood by their position that Halloween was Bad. We were trying to place a better connotation on the holiday. No idea if it actually worked, but they seemed to have a lot of fun carving the pumpkin. Most kids love getting to stick their hands into goo and being able to get a little messy in the process.