Trick or Treats?

Trick or treats?

Last year was the first time Patricia and I spent a Halloween in North America. And this October 31st was the first year we spent our Halloween working, which was a different experience.

In Nanaimo, we were very impressed because people are very excited about the Halloween and houses are very well decorated, which is very different from our reality in South America.

In Brazil, there are, generally, some isolated Halloween parties happening, normally sponsored by English schools. But no big deal, no kids asking for treats. Also, in the companies, nobody cares about the Halloween.

Here, it is an important festivity, like we used to see in the movies. So even in the workplace people enjoyed the festivity, offices are decorated with carved pumpkins, scary masks, well designed cobwebs…  In my work, I could see so many people dressed up for the Halloween!! That was a shock; I was not expecting to see people wearing black dresses, masks and so on… The weirdest part for me was when I was going back to the office after lunch. I was walking after a lady whose black hair was a complete mess. I started to think “wow, this is messy, this is horrible”. But things got better when I saw a spider (a fake spider I hope) climbing her hair. Yeah, things got better because I realized that her hair was a fake one (hopefully).

Well, it took some time for me to get used to the Halloween environment, but I think I got it. Next time I see spiders climbing ladies hairs I will be fine!

And we did enjoy seeing the kids dressed up walking around asking for treats. Unfortunately, because we live in a building with no kids, nobody showed up here saying “trick or treat?”. Or, well, maybe fortunately because we did not have treats in our house!!

We had fun in our second Halloween and we are looking forward to the next one. And, who knows, maybe next year Patricia and I will go outside, knock on neighbours’ houses, and try to get some treats.


Thanks for reading!