Halloween Party

My school had a whole Halloween week last week. Halloween is not really celebrated or even commonly known in Japan, but I guess since we teach these people English, my boss wanted to have them participate in a western holiday. So all week we had to dress up in costumes. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I was a rainbow. On Thursday I was Buzz Lightyear for my kid's classes. And then on Friday and Saturday I was an old lady. My old lady costume was a grey wig, an apron and a scarf tied around my head. My co-worker Yumiko also made me a little name tag that said, "baba". This is the sort of mean word that people use to talk about old ladies. So all my students thought it was pretty funny. On Saturday night we had a Halloween party for the adults at this bar in a neighboring town. Only like 7 or 8 students came though. It was pretty dull and since I was supposed to be like the leader or emcee of the party, I had to make everyone play a game. We played this drinking game that my Australian friend taught me. You basically just go around and everyone numbers off, say if you have 17 people, maybe number off to 22. So the 22nd person has to replace any of the numbers with a word. Then you go around again and again using the word in place of the number and then whoever is the 22nd person the next time replaces another number with a word. So you keep going like this until all the numbers are filled with words. It's hard because you have to remember all the words that have been made into words. Usually this game is not too hard for my students because I mainly teach the higher level people. But I guess a lot of the people at this party were pretty low level so it was hard for them. The game was just not as fun as it could have been because everyone was helping each other. Usually when you play this game, you're drinking and if you can't think of the word, you have to drink. But of course since these people were all lame and weren't drinking, it wasn't as cool as it could have been. They seemed to think it was fun though. So anyway, here's a picture from that night:



We have the day off tomorrow because it's a national holiday, Culture Day. I'm not really sure what people are supposed to do on this day, so I'm going to the Nagoya Aquarium. It's supposed to be pretty cool. So I'll put some pictures up of the aquarium if I actually go.
***Oh ya, and a shout out goes out to my UNCLE MARIO! How's it going? Is your little toe still trying to get on top of the other one?