Halloween

Boring title, but get over it.

So the last few days have been full of candy and costumes. Also pie.

On Halloween, I decided to reward trick or treaters.

The teachers tried it out first, then started telling students that told other students. My desk became rather busy. Fortunately, I had a ton of candy. They all got to use their new "Trick or Treat!" phrase.

I decided early on that I wanted to have a Halloween party, but then one of the students told me they wanted to eat food at the party and that I should get some kind of Halloween food. The only thing I could think of was pumpkin pie.

Fortunately for me, that wasn't foreshadow of a terrible event. We arranged a day to bake the pie, and on that day, the ESS (English Speaking Society [I didn't come up with the name so don't blame me]) teacher and I went and bought pie ingredients during school, which was pretty fun. Then after school, we prepared the pie for baking the next day. Here are some preparation pictures. Enjoy. Or don't. I guess I don't care what you do.

A lot of pictures have to be omitted for boringness or because a student's face is visible. Japanese law and all that.

It's not a particularly exciting story.

I had been thinking for a while that not cooking the seeds would be a waste and it seemed simple. So I looked up the recipe while we cooked and I realized it was. So I ran to the store and got the only thing missing - butter. I decided to completely disregard measurements and poured a stick of butter over everything. We also severely compromised the temperature and baking time. The result was pretty awful. I tried to throw them away, but two students forced me to distribute them to the students and staff. Most of them managed to pretend they were delicious. Of course at this time, everyone was studying or in club activities. We somehow managed to get rid of them all.

The pies turned out much better. We had to cook them the next day, and they actually came out. We served the up, along with a ton of bags of candy I made.

It seems I don't have a picture of the result, but it was quite a few bags.

I wore my fugu hat in the office and to the third year's class. The teacher wore an orange witch hat we got at the 100 yen shop while looking for pie supplies. I also distributed some more candy.

We had as a warm up (which turned into homework), writing out ghost stories on the pumpkins I drew for the kid class.

At the ESS Halloween party, we ate pie and distributed candy. Then we were going to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas.

We couldn't seem to get the door open to the A/V room. I managed to break in using a secret technique a bit before the teacher showed up with the right keys. I can now no longer be contained by sliding doors, locked or otherwise. 

The movie went well (though I forgot speakers), but some students had to leave early, so there'll be a reshowing Wednesday. 

Other than that, Halloween is finally over.

Still need to get real pumpkin seeds to undo the damage I've caused...