{"id":843,"date":"2005-10-27T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2005-10-27T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:59:00","slug":"ess-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"ESS Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

During previous years the ESS has had some kind of Halloween event. Usually it involves makes something edible, but this year the students wanted to make a jack o’lantern. A couple days ago I found some real American-sized (and colored) pumpkins on sale. I bought one for 2000 yen, and today we hacked into it.<\/p>\n

The students were super excited about it – they were dying to get their hands on it and begin the surgery. I had the pumpkin on my desk throughout the day, and teachers kept asking me about it. It was a good introduction to Halloween, which is only just catching on here. They aren’t trick or treating yet, but they like to buy Halloween candy and gifts. <\/p>\n

We laid out some newspaper, and thanks to some tools that I brought along we were able to open the medium sized pumpkin up. Everybody got a chance to stick their hands in and pull some goop out, and everybody was saying “ewww” and the Japanese equivalent of “gross!”<\/p>\n

I forgot my camera today, but I took some pictures with the school camera. Tomorrow I’ll download the images and try to get them posted here tomorrow night. There were some good pictures of girls mutilating pumpkins.<\/p>\n

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They also wanted to watch a movie, but we had one person that said “no scary movies!” I ended up renting “Haunted Mansion” as a compromise – I figured that it was made by Disney as a family movie so how scary could it be. We watched the first half, and one student screamed out loud a couple of times – she was easily frightened, I guess. Everyone else gave her a hard time. <\/p>\n

At 5 o’clock we sent everyone home, and I left the jack o’lantern in my classroom – I’m sure it will reek of pumpkin tomorrow. The other teachers are eager to see it, so it might take a tour of the school tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n

Tonight Kuniko is bringing home some shuu-mai from Ito Yokado, so we’ll be eating well. I started running again in the mornings, now that the weather is cooling off. I noticed that it has given me a big appetite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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