Since Halloween was on a Monday
this year, we started our Huaraz weekend on Sunday. That night we had a family
potluck and watched Hocus Pocus. Ali, Keren and I braved the rain and went to
the market to buy ingredients. I tried
to make puppy chow, but couldn’t find ziplock bags. So I poured everything into
a plastic grocery bag with promptly ripped. Luckily chocolate, peanut butter
and cereal tastes good no matter how much of a mess it is :-P
Monday
everyone ran around town putting together their Halloween costumes. Turns out
things are a little trickier when there is no Wal-Mart, Target or Halloween
Express. There was a lot of last minute cutting and paper mache-ing Monday
afternoon, but everyone sorted it out and we had some excellent costumes. There
is a bar in Huaraz that has a costume contest every Halloween, so we all went.
The winner for the girls was actually one of our very own PCVs! At some point
in the future I will finally remember to post more photos and you guys can see
the costumes. I decided to make an 80s costume and I ended up looking almost
exactly like the little girl from 13 Going on 30…..any excuse to wear a side
ponytail :-P
November
1 is Dia de los Santos in Peru and classes were canceled, so we all woke up
late and slowly trickled back to site. Gotta love random mid-week holidays that
line up with American holidays :-)
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