Halloween

Ooops! I mean Fall Festival! We had so much fun! The house parents finally took a weekend off and headed up to Mussoori and we had the boys all weekend. It was so much fun!

 Kelly’s mom had made red superhero capes and the boys had so much fun running around as Superman and Batman and Spiderman.

So on Saturday morning we headed over to the boys to work on their costumes. All the boys did such great jobs; they are all so artistic and creative! It was fun to see them all be different. I was so surprised at their idivisuality. In the school the kids are artistic but not at all creative. They just copy each other. I was expecting the same with the boys on their costumes (Honestly I was expecting all Spidermans). But we only had one repeat: Superman. All of the boys were adorable. Miraj was an adorable little “101 Dalmatian puppy”, Rahul was the cutest Santa I have ever seen. All the boys did so well! We had Aslan [the adorable Mukund], the Evil King (from Narnia 2)[John], Reepacheep (the fighting mouse) [Ratan, who was seriously so adorable!], Thapa and Ashish were Superman, A surprise appearance by Batman [Bharat who had been planning on being Robin Hood], a wild jungleman [Ajay, who danced down the “runway”], Shubam was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Where’s Waldo? [Anshuman], Sumeat was King Peter, and a terrifying ghost: Pradeep [who actually scared one of the girls], Sharon (Joseph Uncle’s daughter) was a beautiful princess, and Susana (her sister) was a peacock!

            Us volunteers got quiet dresses up too! We had a “red Indian” (Ruth), the Taj Mahal (Amanda), a Peacock (Kelly) and I?

My costume: I was an alien. The plan was so simple: 1. Put hair into little knobby buns. 2. Paint on extra eyes 3. Tie two pairs of pants on, with a leg in each pair thus creating four “legs” 4. Put a long sleeve top through the armholes of my kurta top 5. Stuff the extra appendages to look like arms or legs. And here was the difficulty I was not anticipating! It seriously took me soooo long to make the legs look close to right.

In the end it all turned out well and we had fun with a “fashion show”, special Indian sweets and smosas, soda, a cake and a special goody bag with toffees, peanuts, scary spider rings and bananas from Kelly! It was the best Halloween! It was so fun to take a day with no homework and just enjoy being with each other. Dressing up and talking and laughing. A party was just what was needed! 

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