Halloween

Happy belated Halloween from Norway! I know that his post is quite late but I thought that I would share anyway.

Halloween is a fairly recently adopted holiday here in Norway. Norwegians have only participated in Halloween for the past 10 years or so.

At school, we had a Halloween celebration for our middle school. It consisted of watching movies (one 'scary' movie and one fun movie) and eating snacks. Students could wear costumes if they wanted to. The majority of the costumes were quite nice, no scary or super bloody costumes. The younger kids had a costume parade to show off their costumes. They also had little parties full of homemade treats. There was also a haunted house that students could go though. My understanding is that the scariest part of the haunted house was the gross tasting drink that was given out at the end. One of the classes even made Halloween games. They asked for donations and gave all the money to a local charity.

On Halloween night kids do go trick-or-treating here. We wanted to make sure to have some candy ready so we bought some at the chocolate factory a few weeks before. We have since found out that giving unwrapped candy or even homemade cookies or muffins is completely acceptable. Not at all what we are used to!

Since we live in an apartment complex, we thought we would have a pretty good number of trick-or-treaters. We were wrong. We saw a lot of kids in the complex but we only got 3 kids at our door. 3!! Oh well, more candy for us!

My jack-o-lantern. I designed him myself. Daniel decided to name him Brunswick.

Our Halloween candy from the local chocolate factory.