Happy Halloween to everyone! This year for Halloween I invited volunteers from around the area to help out with aHalloween activity at the youth center. I didn't go into the details about what Halloween really is or how it works but rather set up a small carnival like experience. We had bobbing for apples, pin the nose on the pumpkin, potato sack races, face painting, mask making, we taught the electric slide andto top it all off we had a haunted house. There is no way I could have done it without the other PCVs so a huge thanks goes out to them!
In the afternoon the PCVs got together and made decorations. We peeled grapes to serves as eyeballs, made spaghetti noodles to serve as worms and put uncooked rice in boxes to represent ants. These are all fond memories I have of Halloween activities during elementary school.
We strung string across the youth center and made a divider by hanging sheets over the string. Tables were set up that kids would climb under (and PCVs would hide on), people hid behind boards, and in doorways. String was hung at the entrance to feel like spider webs as children entered the haunted house. By the end of the evening even the moms wanted to go through the haunted house, their one requirement, that they didn't have to climb under the table.
I was lucky to have the help of so many PCVs, as there would have been no way to accomplish such a great event by myself. Youmay wonder what this had to dowith youth development. It was really more of a focus on the cultural exchange goal of Peace Corps. It also gave the kids a chance to experience something they hadn't before from art and dance to face painting and American games.
It was a blast and I hope to do it again next year!
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