Spoooooky Gourds and Halloween Explanations

Explaining Halloween to our friends and our students at HIT has always been a challenge. It is a holiday that defies a simple explanation.







How can you explain:

• Dressing up in silly costumes. 

Nonie came as a Jacqueline-o-lantern while I came as a poisonous, endangered tree frog. What's silly about that. 

• Carving up a perfectly good pumpkin, then not eating it. 

New technology provided digital design suggestions for those pumpkin faces. I Pad to the rescue.

• Going from house to house threatening homeowners with tricks unless they give you treats

Here is Justin trying to look threatening and doing a very poor job. He did however receive his treats for placing second in the scariest pumpkin category. It should be known that the pumpkin judge had been taking pain medication for his bad back when he made that decision.


  

• Scaring the bejeezus out of people.

Irina trying to look scary. Not!  

Her pumpkin could be your best friend.


  

 

Most of our friends do not have a festival that remotely resembles Halloween so they had little to relate to.  It didn't stop them from having a good time.



 

All went home with a spooky gourd. Some of the gourds had a decidedly friendly demeanor but we didn't have the heart to tell our friends. After all, spooky is in the eye of the beholder.