Happy Halloween!

The haunted house at my school was a success!

Again - our goal was not to make children cry. This was a joke goal.

However...if it had been a real goal it would have been reached with flying colours. I lost track of how many kids cried.... :-\ This wasn't even limited to the first and second graders, oh no. We made at least one kid in every grade cry - first through sixth. Apparently it was too scary....

Here's a video in the light of how the haunted house went. I wasn't as awkward when we went through it with the kids. I wasn't laughing, I didn't drop my broom and I didn't run into Lauren (every time...). Kids screamed at each station  - they screamed when Dr. Death (Jonathan) chopped the body loudly with his knife, they screamed when the dead bride (Rachel) jumped at them and they even screamed when awkward witch (Jessika!) ran at them with her broom and threw "a potion" (confetti) at them.

I work with first and second graders and in these grades only about 5 kids our of 100 didn't dress up. All of the teacher dressed up. It was pretty impressive.

We went out for beer (because in Spain you can drink at lunch time before returning to school) and lunch with all of the teachers and they bought our food as a thanks for the haunted house. They all loved it. We even made some teachers scream and jump when we walked them through it.

Jessika and the other language assistants. Dead Bride Rachel is from Ireland, Dr. Death Jonathan is from Arkansas and Vampire Lauren is from California.

Me at my cauldron.