I’ve always celebrated Halloween in the U.S. without ever really knowing the true history of it. All I knew as a kid was that I wanted to go to as many houses as I could and get as much candy as possible…hence, the reason for my very very fat awkward elementary and middle school years. It originated from the Celtic lands like Ireland and Scotland from a festival called Samhain which has great ties to Galicia as it is also considered a celtic land. Since Halloween in Spain has only recently started to take on a greater meaning, I gave a presentation to every class last week about it. The Spanish Halloween of course is an adaptation of an American Halloween, and spaniards love to dress up really scary Halloween night as they have a festival in the spring called Carnaval where they dress up how we normally would. Halloween is pretty big with the primary schools as kids get to dress up for school. Trick-or-treating is rare here as the majority of families live in an apartment. High schoolers and university students love to go out, and about half dress up. In my presentation, I talked to them about the origins of Halloween and showed them my previous Halloween costumes, pictures of houses on Halloween, and then a bunch of funny clips of Halloween pranks—Amy and Andy’s haunted house trip, people scaring kids during trick-or-treating, Kimmel’s I ate all my kid’s Halloween candy, etc. The students loved it, and at the end we played Halloween Pictionary, and they competed for a bar of toblerone chocolate.
My roommates and I decided to throw a house party for Halloween as we wanted to bring U.S Halloween to Spain! It was a huge success, and our Spanish friends fell in love with flip cup. They are horrible chuggers I must say, but they enjoyed the game nonetheless. They liked beer pong as well, but it was a bit harder to play with the smaller plastic cups we found at the supermarket. I went as a garden, which sounds like a horrible idea, but I think it turned out okay. No Spaniard understood it as they asked me where the scary part of my costume was. I would say bringing Halloween to Spain was a huge success indeed, and all that was missing was some great American candy like resee cups and twix.
Yours truly,
TLT
My roommates and I decided to throw a house party for Halloween as we wanted to bring U.S Halloween to Spain! It was a huge success, and our Spanish friends fell in love with flip cup. They are horrible chuggers I must say, but they enjoyed the game nonetheless. They liked beer pong as well, but it was a bit harder to play with the smaller plastic cups we found at the supermarket. I went as a garden, which sounds like a horrible idea, but I think it turned out okay. No Spaniard understood it as they asked me where the scary part of my costume was. I would say bringing Halloween to Spain was a huge success indeed, and all that was missing was some great American candy like resee cups and twix.
Yours truly,
TLT