Antonio Devalque's Halloween Carnival

After two long annoying weeks of preparation, we finally had our Halloween party at school this past Friday. I spent the morning doing my Wild Things presentation and then at 12:00, after recess, all the kids put on their costumes and we had a little mini Halloween carnival. The PE teacher, Paco, and I had organized some games for them...ok, truth is he came up with most of them. I only came up with 2. Paco had the 8th graders be in charge of running the games and the classes took turns rotating through each of the stations.

Thanks to my friend Kelli's idea, my station was a hit! I did sort of like a mad-scientist's lab kinda thing. I woke up at 6AM to boil spaghetti, cauliflower, and eggs and then when I got to school, I put them in bowls and covered the table with a layer of black paper. As the different classes came through my station, they had to reach their hands into the various bowls and touch the "intestines," "brains," and "eyeballs." It was hilarious. Some of the kids screamed, most jerked their hands away quickly, and some even refused to participate.

Then, of course, there were the obnoxious kids. The ones who felt compelled to pull noodles and bits and pieces of cauliflower and egg out of the bowls so that they could ruin it for everyone else. The ones who tried to sneak behind the table to see what was in the bowls. The ones who figured it out and then ran to tell the other classes before they got to my station. That's one thing I've learned...no matter whether you're in the US or in Spain, there's little asshole kids all over the world haha.






The other game that surprisingly was actually really awesome was our modified version of bobbing for apples. I proposed doing it for real, but Paco thought it wasn't sanitary. Fun sucker. But anyway, he got plastic bowls and put one apple and a little water in each bowl. I was mad at first because the apples weren't even able to float because the bowls were so small. "How stupid," I thought. However, when I actually watched the kids do it, it was a riot. They had to put their hands behind their backs and the first person to eat the apple without using their hands was the winner. I stood there for a good 5 minutes straight just laughing at how ridiculous these kids looked!