Happy Halloween!

The SCIC students decided to throw a Halloween party on Saturday. Halloween isn't a "thing" here, so it was interesting to see how the students chose to dress up. Many of them didn't, but those that did had rented elaborate costumes and painted their faces. Their attention to detail is pretty amazing. Likewise, they throw some pretty elaborate parties.They started by having foreign teachers and other "guests of honor" parade through the crowds of students in our Halloween costumes, and do a kind of parade around the campus. There were games, a legitimately scary haunted house, an MC'ed costume contest, and dancing. The dancing, of course, was all pre-choreographed. The students had requested that I teach them the Chicken Dance, the Bunny Hop, the Macarena, the Soulja Boy dance, and the Electric Slide during the week prior. It was actually really fun!

Midterm week is fast approaching, which means I will have my hands full with marking three sets of 40 exams. Luckily I just met my TA, Celine, this week. She will be a marvelous help when it comes time to weed through all that ESL writing.

I wore this to school on Halloween. The funny thing was that I got stared at, but not significantly more than I do on a regular day.

Some students also being fierce cats!

A tug of war competition between classes.

This comforter is as soft as a...ferret? Hopefully it smells better.