{"id":21820,"date":"2021-11-23T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T22:10:42","slug":"international-at-camosun-my-first-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/11\/23\/international-at-camosun-my-first-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"International at Camosun<\/em>: My first Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that when there’s a festival coming up, you can feel it in the air. I’ve never honestly understood why everyone celebrated Halloween, a spooky holiday, but when it was coming up this year, I could certainly feel it in the air, and it made me excited to understand it better.<\/p>\n

It’s not just about spookiness\u2014this holiday is about fun and, like Thanksgiving, family time.<\/p>\n

It was my first Halloween this year and I was looking forward to celebrating it with my boyfriend and his sister’s family. The first thing we had to do was to decide what we would dress up as.<\/p>\n

This was a tough one; I’ve never dressed up as anything except as a teacher in a fancy dress competition back home, so this was basically like an opportunity to dress up as someone exciting.<\/p>\n

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I had just finished watching the Netflix series Squid Game<\/em> so I thought that would be a great costume, but I was sure that a lot of people would dress up like that this year, and arranging to make that costume was a big task, too.<\/p>\n

So I decided to go back to childhood and picked a character from a childhood anime that I binge-watched just a few weeks ago. I decided to be Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/em>. I bought a Katara costume from Spirit Halloween; it felt amazing wearing that costume.<\/p>\n

After dressing up we went to the Halloween party; everyone was in costume and was super excited. There were a lot of snacks and there was a nice punch drink as well.<\/p>\n

We played different games and then got so drunk; we laughed a lot and had a great time. But the twist is that all of that was adult halloween: it was a Halloween party for the grown ups.<\/p>\n

The next day, Halloween itself, was all about the children.<\/p>\n

Every household in the area was expecting about 600 trick or treaters\u2014yes, that’s a lot! And the amazing thing is that the turnout was close to that number.<\/p>\n

Kids were dressed in various spooky and cute costumes. They were carrying a pail to collect candies.<\/p>\n

That day I wished I was a kid. Because although I know I can still buy candies from the store, that’s no fun compared to getting free candy. The houses welcoming trick or treaters were decorated so nicely; there was music and sometimes even some games. I took a lot of pictures.<\/p>\n

All the neighbours coming together to celebrate a fun holiday\u2014that’s what Halloween is for me as an international student in Canada.<\/p>\n

I am so looking forward to celebrating Christmas this year. Every holiday that I experience and celebrate in Canada reminds me how amazing the melting-pot culture here really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say that when there’s a festival coming up, you can feel it in the air. I’ve never honestly understood why everyone celebrated Halloween, a spooky holiday, but when it was coming up this year, I could certainly feel it in the air, and it made me excited to understand it better. It’s not just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t