Anddd the Spooky Season is Over
- navakallc
- Nov 3, 2024
- 3 min read
October just ended, and with it, ended a spooky season. The beginning of October is always special, with the cold just starting to seep into the weather, the wispy remaining of the summer still there, the sun still in the sky. It’s also when all the spooky decorations start getting put up at people’s houses.
All this, in celebration of Halloween! The Halloween decorations are all always exuberantly arranged on people’s front yards or porches, things like pumpkins and stuffed ghosts, witches and basically anything else you might see in a children’s horror movie. Some of the cooler decorations also include motion sensor witches, which yell or say menacing words in a witches voice every time you walk past. Some of the Dracula or vampire decorations also raise their hands as you walk past. There’s always this one house in the neighborhood that’s the most extravagant of all, with the coolest decorations and the best candy.
Candy! That’s another reason why Halloween is such a popular day in the United States, especially for the kids. Trick or treating is a great tradition associated with going to people’s houses and getting candy. Wearing a costume and with a pumpkin basket or bag for the candy, so many people, mostly kids go door to door in neighborhoods to get candy. There are so many varieties, and the bags are full to the brim by the end of the day. To this day, I love going out for trick or treating with friends. We dress up in so many different costumes, ranging from Harry Potter to a cat, to a popular singer in the United States.
Every year, as Halloween approaches, even our school gets all excited, placing Halloween decorations in our hallways and playing spooky music and games in classrooms. On the festive day itself, a lot of our teachers, as an incentive for us to dress up, give us extra credit if we wear costumes on the day of Halloween. All of them even give us candy, and everyone gets really energetic and jumpy because of the sugar. Our teacher took selfies with us in all of our costumes, as a way to commemorate this special day.
One of the most classic costumes is from Harry Potter. I was Hermione Granger this year, and even had the wand. One of my teachers was also a fan, and so he took my wand and said the classic charm “Wingardium Leviosa”, and we acted out the scene from the book. It’s a fun day at school on Halloween, because everyone participates, and we do fun things in class. Our teachers are also nice enough to not give us that much homework that day, because they know we’re going to go trick or treating.
Personally, I love chocolate, and so every time after trick or treating, my friends and I look at our gigantic stash and trade our candy so that we all get what we like and trade what we don’t like. For a solid week after Halloween, all of us commence to eat our chocolate at school, trading and sharing our large amount of sugar.
It’s one of my favorite way to spend time with friends, dress up and go out. Even though it might pour outside, like it was this year, we wear raincoats and jackets and still go out to get candy, continuing the tradition.