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...
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...
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...
Here are some of the eighth grade science class students in costume and their always helpful teacher, Ana. On Halloween, I dressed as a veterinarian to care for the Lambie (who by the way goes everywhere with me in Corpul Pacii in the Adventures...
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,...
The first Halloween costume party celebrated at Lanzhou University. English major students dressed in costume and gathered for food, drink, dancing and merriment!
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!
This photo shows a glimpse of the first time the English major students at Lanzhou University celebrated Halloween. Students wore costumes and gathered for food, drink, pumpkin carving, dancing and merriment!
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,...
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.
These 3 young girls were celebrating Halloween in Thailand in October 2010. Local kids helped color masks so each child could wear a mask -- or face paint, which was also popular. Many games were played and fun was had by all!
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...
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...
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...