Halloween - Japanese style

Happy Halloween! Well they don’t celebrate Halloween here, but of course the Americans have brought it over and the Kumamoto JETs are well known for having a great Halloween party! The weekend before Halloween, we had a Halloween themed surprise party for an ALT in my area. It was tons of fun and he literally had no clue. Then the next week at school I got to teach the students about Halloween, including teaching them the “Trick or Treat” chant. The actual Halloween weekend was quite busy. My eikaiwa had a Halloween karaoke potluck on Friday night (I was a cat), Saturday I helped out at a local children’s Halloween party for kids that have English tutors (I was a cowgirl), and Saturday night I went to the big ALT party dressed as the swine flu. Sunday was all about recovering and then it was back to school on Monday!