Halloween! When asked what Halloween exactly is, most Americans start off by telling of the consumer-ized point of view. The candy, pumpkin carving, dressing up, and of course the evil of it all come spilling out of greedy American’s mind. However Halloween is celebrated because about 2,000 years ago, the Celtics from Ireland celebrated the new years on November the first. So they believed that on October 31, or Samhain, ghosts of the dead could return to earth and ruin the crops. In order to keep their crops safe, they created huge bon-fires and sacrifices animals, meanwhile wearing costumes. Halloween came to America because when the Europeans came to America, they brought their customs too. In America, Halloween just started out as what they called “play parties”. At these parties people told each other’s fortunes, sang, danced, and told stories. Eventually it evolved to the Halloween that we have today.
I did not do anything for Halloween this year. I had a family crisis and was trying to deal with that. However if I was not dealing with that I would have gone to a charity party with my room-mate. My costume was going to be Bendi Erwin (Steve Erwin’s – the crocodile hunter- daughter). I had a beige dress and crocodile skin high heels that I would have worn along with a safari hat. The charity event was to collect blankets for the homeless so the cover charge to get into the party was either a blanket or 5 dollars so that the host could go buy a blanket with that money.
That's all for now!
~Ali
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