It's a Work in Progress: Halloween

The Halloween celebrations at Reggio were....well....they're done. The pictures are cute, but overall the day was torture. Each western teacher was in charge of coming up with a game and throughout the day the Korean teachers would bring each class by to play the game in the classroom. As often happens, way too many activities were scheduled and they completely overlooking the fact that the foreign teachers might need a break...or might need food. Also contributing to the stress and headache of the day, i'd chosen Pass the Witches Broom Stick as my game, which was one of my childhood favorites, but I don't remember it being so dangerous in my elementary school years-maybe I was just oblivious to the obvious visual damage possibilities back then. At any rate, after 2 classes my game had gone from Pass the Witches Broom Stick to hot potato with a wireless witch hat.

In addition to the pain of the actual Halloween Party, the preparation for the day's festivities must have killed 1/3 of the remaining rain forests and caused roughly 3 dozen species to go extinct. To say the place looked festive would be comparable to calling the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a Homecoming pep rally. And to top it off the Reggio administration got lost in translation somewhere and ordered a pinata. Happy Halloween, everybody.

My boys have a slight obsession with "Powaaahh Wangaahs" Can you tell?

There were specific no gun rules put in place because of this child. It's lovely how he follows instruction.

WoongJay putting out a serious vibe. Must be the muscles.

Told Brian to do a "superhero" pose and he broke out in this.

The masks didn't last long.

Shota from Koala Class. Quite possibly the most adorable frog i've ever seen.

Real original Cat Class teachers, real original.

Because obviously every kindergarten needs a red carpet for a Halloween party.

And Jessica was dressed as Madeline. The day before she'd tried telling me what she was dressing up as and I couldn't understand what she was saying, after about 10 tries I finally just said "ohhhh MOMMA cat!!! Wonderful!!!!" -in the excessively enthusiastic falsetto voice that I use whenever i'm talking to the kids.

Later in the day I made the executive decision that carving a real pumpkin was an absolutely horrible idea, so instead I gave the kids paper and had them draw their costumes.