Halloween

Happy Halloween everybody. I hope you are all well. We are doing well. We had a bit of a scare this week with the pregnancy. Jenny’s family has a history of diabetes and the doctor called to say that there were some issues with Jenny’s last blood test. So we rushed in to get checked out and apparently she is borderline diabetic. It is strange because she never really eats anything that causes diabetes. Regardless, we now have to get checked up more often and she has to really monitor her eating in order to avoid any major complications. I am sure she and the baby will be fine though. He is still break dancing in her belly non-stop. Definitely an active little guy.
My school didn’t have a Halloween party this year. I think because the economy is getting worse so they can’t afford to do big parties anymore but I decided to celebrate nonetheless. The Taiwanese are incredibly scared of ghosts and probably about 75% of them not only believe in the deathly ghouls but also believe that ghosts will try to hurt them whenever possible. Enter Danny with his newest monster mask and his Canon Powershot. I began bursting into classrooms of unsuspecting children, howling while recording their reactions. Man can Taiwanese kids scream. You can see one of the videos on my Facebook. I scared Jonathon and another Teacher Steven really bad, too. I generally don’t stick around after scaring Jonathon as he told me about a year ago, after a particularly good string of frightening encounters -that he would punch me in the head the next time I scared him. Thankfully, I think Halloween tricks are accepted by him, as I was not pummeled. He has a new class, which is in the Facebook video. They are all Grade 1s and 2s and new to the school. They don’t know me and have no idea about my antics. My own students are fairly hard to scare now. So the fresh blood of Jonathon’s students was a welcome treat for my Halloween. Before I left on Friday night, I used a mop, the mask and a few other things lying around to make a scarecrow in the bathroom. So whoever was the first to walk into the bathroom Saturday morning would come face to face with a monster. I look forward to hearing who that scared. Most likely our secretary.
The weeks are flying by like crazy right now. I will have a son in no-time at all. The pics below are stills I took from the videos of the terrified kids.