With a rural youth group we dressed up for Halloween. The kids made homemade costumes and we watched "Monsters Inc." and bobbed for apples. Here I am with the youth in their costumes. It was their first Halloween, but I'm sure we will celebrate...
A fellow Volunteer and myself decided to have a Halloween party for the neighborhood kids in Guyana. We made the costumes, which included a pirate (pictured), a mouse, a cat, a bumblebee, a ladybug and a basketball player.
Rural villagers in Tanzania had never heard of the American holiday called Halloween. Also, they had never seen this type of pumpkin before. I gave my friend some seeds and after some weeks, she proudly brought a home grown pumpkin to my house. I...
This photo was taken with my 5th grade class at Avkcenti Veleshki Grammar school in Samokov, Bulgaria. We were having a lesson on American holidays and celebrating Halloween by making masks. Photograph was taken on Tuesday, October 31st, 2000.
This picture was taken the friday before Halloween, in my third grade English class in Armenia. I shared with the children the halloween tradition by having them make jack-o-lanterns at home with their family. Then, on the day of the Halloween...
We had a belated Halloween party in November 2010 at Wat Yaida School. This photo is of my 5th grade class and me dressed up in our costumes. The classes that I taught, grades 5 and 6, made decorations, dressed up in costumes and went...
Bulgarians don't really celebrate Halloween, but I introduced the holiday to my students. My kindergarteners especially loved celebrating it and got dressed up for the occasion. There was a pirate, Spiderman, a ghost, a dinosaur, and a witch among...
Halloween was my mom's favorite holiday so I thought it would be fun to share her love of the holiday with my Moldovan students, who had never celebrated Halloween before. We had mummy wrapping contests, and this is the winning team!
Moldova,...
This photo was taken on October 29, 2010 in the gym at Gimnasia Vasil Levsk (high school) in Bulgaria. I worked with a group of students to present a Halloween Party. There was a skit, a song, and a group of students performed the Thriller Dance,...
this is a picture of my training group during a HUB day in Macedonia. The HUB day fell on Halloween 2009 and my training group really got into the Halloween spirit. We each went as the American holidays: St. Valentine (cupid), St. Patricks, the...
Girls from my English Club dressed up as princesses for Halloween at our school in October 2010. They love to dress up and they love having their picture taken!