Space Bunnies and Witches are Sighted in Daegu

Halloween marks our one year anniversary in Korea. This time last year we had many questions running through our heads: Why is everything so confusing? Why am I shocked about our living standards? Why did we come to Korea in the first place? These questions can finally be answered now that we have immersed ourselves in Korea for a year. The answers are - I don't know!

Just because we are walking through life clueless doesn't mean we can't have fun, and our idea of fun is scaring people. We made it our mission on Halloween to scare as many Koreans as possible in a cultural exchange. We exchanged screams for laughs! Lauren, Heather (another teacher we work with), and I ransacked our supermarket for costumes. Fortunately, we came up with some good ones with the limited options. Lauren won first prize with her very scary witch costume. The character came naturally to her. Heather won second place. She had the kids running and screaming from her all day at school. It is sad to say, but I received last place. I couldn't decide if I wanted to be an alien or a bunny, so I fused them together and became a space bunny.

We had all the kids frightened at school because Koreans don't celebrate Halloween. They were all taken back by the experience, especially the little ones. My ears still hurt from the screams Lauren and Heather received. My kids just called me crazy and laughed at me, which isn't any different from a normal day at school.

I felt a bit inadequate because my costume wasn't scary, so I had to figure out a way to really scare the kids. I decided to abruptly fling open my fellow teachers doors while they were teaching class, yell at the top of my lungs and throw candy at their kids. It worked like a charm and all of the kids and teachers jumped out of their shorts! I was also able to scare the devil out of Lauren and her kids as well.

After school we went to our corner store to scare the owner, Mina. I don't know what scared her the most: jumping out and screaming at her, the way we looked, or thinking that she was about to get robbed.

We continued our night of horror by jumping and screaming at unsuspecting Koreans. As a result of our night, I mastered a surprise attack technique. I quietly sneaked up to people and looked over their shoulder with my alien mask. This technique almost got me in a fight, but it was well worth it because the screams from innocent Korean girls were well off the Richter scale. Hehehehehe....HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!