This week was a busy week though we didn’t have a lot of class days, actually starting from last Friday. Shukutoku held the annual fall festival, today (Thursday) is a national holiday – Culture Day, and of course Halloween was Monday.
I’m not a big Halloween celebrater, but I enjoy talking about it and discussing it with my students.
Many people outside the US don’t realise just how big of a holiday it is in the states. It is the number 3 party holiday. Can you name the two days more time and money is spent on parties in the US? Most people are surprised to find out. It’s also a more than 2 billion dollar holiday just for candy. That’s a lot of candy corn, folks 😉
Halloween means to me that fall is officially underway and winter will soon follow and the holiday season is upon us. Only a few weeks till Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays, and then of course Christmas and New Year’s. It really seems to just roll up on you from here. That’s not a bad thing. Just a thing.
Here’s a photo of a decoration I thought was interesting on the stairwell in Building 1 at the Hoshigaoka Campus.
I think they are both in my classes…