As our first American Holiday abroad approaches we are overcome with the reality of what a truly global world it is. Halloween is not really a holiday here, but you couldn't tell. Grocery stores have orange and black candies on the shelves, and home decoration shops have witches and ghosts in the windows. The only difference is that here, they eat their pumpkins....
As for us, we will be spending the big night out on the town. We have a few colleagues (and ex-TEFL course mates) who live near the Colloseum, and we plan to go out with them and crash at their place for the night. One thing that is working in our favor is that the Italians have All Saints day on November 1st, which means we have the day after Halloween off!! PARTY!
All Saints day is a holiday for Italians to spend in rememberance of their departed friends and family members. They spend the afternoon cleaning the dust off their grave sites and decorating them with flowers. One of my students asked if we had a holiday that was similar to All Saints Day, and when I told him that no, we didn't, he responded, "So, you just forget the dead?" Well, we are American...
As for the rest of you devoted readers, have a safe and happy Halloween, eat lots of candy corn for us, and carve some awesome pumpkins.
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