Halloween: Early, Late, and Never on Time. Always Awesome

In October all schools have a Fall Break for the quarter mark of the school year. Ours was from the 26th to November 3rd. On Tuesday and Wednesday Becky, Tati, and Mary came to visit me in Szeged.

On Tuesday night Szabolcs, the old YEO, was having a pumpkin carving contest in honor of Halloween. All the inbounds from Szeged (plus my guests) as well as many of the rebounds were there and we had a blast :)

Being from the US and Canada the three of us in this picture had distinct advantages when it came to pumpkin carving. Tati had an excellent Pac-Man pumpkin while Mary went with a classic Jack-o-lantern look and I carved a black widow spider surrounded by her web, a bat, and a pumpkin. Not to toot my own horn but I kicked ass :D My pumpkin even matched my shirt which was not planned and made it even better.

This one is mine.

I could not believe how cute Flora's pumpkin turned out :)

On actual Halloween I went to a contemporary dance performance with our mentors. I finally got to go inside the beautiful Szeged theater. The gorgeous yellow exterior has nothing on the interior's beauty.

Obviously I was transfixed by the chandelier but I can assure you the rest of the building is equally spectacular. 

The dance was a story about soldiers being calmed by earth spirits. The choreographer made excellent use of a large fold up box as the only prop. By the end all the earth spirits were covered in colored chalks after what I could only describe as a color fight (sound familiar?). 

I thoroughly enjoyed it despite the fact that the only thing I got to dress up as for Halloween this year was a classy theater attendee, which I guess was costume enough. 

After the dance performance I spent some time with Flora and Luca's rebound friends who were visiting for Thursday and Friday. I like all of them very much and had a unique opportunity to have some great conversations about being an exchange student.

Then, on November 6th, the mentors had a Halloween party involving costumes (of which I was not informed ahead of time or I would've whipped something up), candy, games, and crafts.

So I had three awesome Halloweens none of which were what I would've expected but that is the fun part about life :) Happy Halloween. Early or late but always awesome :)