Happy Trick or Treating

Yesterday I was talking again with my best friend Janifa. We were talking about this and that and then suddenly we were discussing about this particular topic on tv show. I then remember how she hate talking about ghosts. She started screaming and pointing at their kitchen door. She was imagining someone was peaking on it. It was nighttime over there while it was daytime in our place that was why I was so confident telling stories about it. She was telling his husband about it and then his husband Jeffrey, showed me a poster which has a picture of a mummy that looks like spongebob but a scary one and it says trick or treat, that reminds me halloween is just around the corner.

There were probably a lot of trick or treat activities going on by this time if not only for the worldwide pandemic. This was a yearly activity that we adopted from western countries. Parents and kids were pretty excited for this kind of event. For the parents they love to try out different costumes for their little ones, either it’s scary, superheroes princess type one or any costumes that suits their kid’s like. Well for the kids, aside from wearing their favorite character costumes, one thing they love most about in this activity were candies, chocolates, and different kind of sweets. Who doesn’t love it anyway, even at my age I still love to munch it.

For today's article, allow me share to you again my throwback story about my kid’s personal experience on their last trick or treat activity. It happened on the last week of October 2017. During that particular week, they had a one week vacation as part of semestral break also because of upcoming holiday, the All Souls day. So before going to the cemetery on that week, there was a yearly trick or treat event happening on our village. We started joining in 2016 and in the following year, the kids were as excited as ever to get a loads of their treats. On the day of the event, I let my kids wear their costumes which they’ve used the other year. I wasn’t able to buy them a new one because I was out of budget.😁 After wearing it, I put them some make up so they would look scary, unfortunately, I am not a gifted make up artist. I just drew something on their face using eyeliner and put some red lipstick on their faces to complete the get up. They got their pumpkin basket and off we go to the clubhouse. The organisers of the event held a small program and some parlor games before the kids can proceed to do some trick or treats along the neighborhood. They also announced the winners of best in costume for that year. And the winners deserved it because they looked really cute with their costumes. By the way, my Athan bagged the 3rd place for best in costume in 2016. We were really surprised and wasn’t expecting it. His costume was just a plain one but maybe because of his charms he won the heart of the judges😅

After the short program and announcement of winners, the foods were distributed to all participants. Then, the trick or treats activity started. All the kids together with their guardians went to every house in the village to get some candies. All the homeowners were so cooperative because they give each kids a fair share of candies and other treats. We got home when my kids pumpkin baskets were full of sweets already. As usual my kids were all excited to see a lot of treats and can no longer wait to have a taste of it. When we got home, I let them change their clothes, then they started counting their candies and eating some of it. I have to remind them to drink a lot water to avoid getting a toothache.

Final Thoughts

Now that my kids are grown up, I don’t think they will still enjoy joining this kind of activities. They would probably feel embarrassed wearing an awkward costumes too. But I know, in a few years more, they’ll be glad to know that once in their life they’ve got to experience it. Am I glad, this kind of activities is widely spread to different part of the countries, and you don’t have to spend a lot of money just to enjoy it. Any particular costumes is allowed, the scarier the better. Sad to say, there wouldn’t be any trick or treat this year because of the ongoing pandemic. We can only hope that next year they would allow it, even though my kids would no longer join but for the little ones who haven’t experienced it yet.

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