Happy November! I had a great time for Halloween here! Thanks to candy sent by June Brown and some pictures sent from my mom, I got to celebrate by

teaching my 5th grade kids about Halloween. It was hilarious! I taught them how to

trick or treat and they all had to say who they were dressed like, the

pattern went like this: "I'm David Beckham, I'm Jennifer Lopez, I'm David

Beckham, I'm 50 Cent, I'm David Beckham, I'm George Bush (no joke), I'm

David Beckham, I'm Ashanti...etc." Pretty much name your favorite black R

and B/Rap artist and they were represented...and of course david beckham.

It was fun.



They cracked up too b/c my mom sent a letter with scanned

pics of different costumes we had worn in the past; they couldn't believe that i too had once been a kid. It was great fun. The day culminated by teaching them "trick

or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!" I could still hear them singing it when I was halfway back to the university. More corruption by their American teacher! It was great fun though, and surprising difficult to explain Halloween. My roommate even asked me what the difference between a witch and a wizard was...interesting question! So, Halloween was a blast and things have been going well.



We're all enjoying free European movies at the film festival in town and last night I went out dancing with three Swedes, two Tanzanians and a partridge in a pear tree. It was a great mental exercise as much of the conversation was in Swedish (which is very similar to Norwegian!) and Swahili. My head was slightly sore by the end of the night, but it felt great to be able to jump languages like that! Today is quiet, probably church at 4:30 and a movie at 7:30 at the British Council. I hope all is well in the States...enjoy the snow!