Happy Halloween!

Friday nights are not very exciting at our house this semester because I have to teach class. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 7:30 - 9:30 I have a teacher’s class that I teach. So I see the same students almost every night. For a little variation, Friday nights we usually meet at my house and I cook an "American or Western" meal for them. Since this Friday was Halloween, we did snacks and carved pumpkins.

It was their first time to carve pumpkins and I think they really enjoyed it. Curtis helped out with his expertise on carving pumpkins (most tips he gave, I forget every year. For instance, when you cut off the top, cut at a slant so it can go back on without falling through. Yeah. I usually forget that I am suppose to do that until I try to put the top back on and it falls through, then I think "oh yeah! I was supposed to cut at a slant.") So thanks to him, they didn’t have to experience the mishaps of carving pumpkins. I had fun preparing the snacks, even though they don’t eat much.


I made Aunt Jane's Brownies (Curtis' aunt’s recipe), Pumpkin-apple muffins, popcorn, toasted pumpkin seeds, and of course we had candy corn. One of the other teachers, Lindsey, also came to help out with advice and to just visit with the students/teachers in English.

Overall, it was a fun Halloween!

Nancy and her Pumpkin

Sara and her pumpkin



Laury and Nancy and their pumpkin

George and his pumpkin


Audrey and her pumpkin

David and Victor didnt bring pumpkins but they helped everyone else to theirs!