We were in search for Halloween costumes, decorations for our door and of course candy to give out today. Along the way we tried another Chile favourite Mote con huesillo. So…what did it taste like?
” When you open a jar of peaches, it is the peach juice.” Danika
“Uhhm, I don’t know…..I think like….I have no idea.” Gabriel
“It was disgusting!” Sayer
” Christmas wheat with a peach flavour.” Renelle
“A light peach drink with wheat kernels in it, I loved it!” Shawn
So today I got to experience a Chilean Halloween. I don’t really know what I was but I’m sure that doesn’t matter that much. It was just like I imagined it to be, the candy was mostly gummies and taffy. The first door the people ran out before we even got there and that was when I thought “are we even going to get anything?” So that was when I started running to the doors. It was awesome when this one lady emptied her bowl on me and after that door my bag ripped open. I waited for at least five minutes for an elevator with my hands covering the holes in my bag. By the time I got home my bag was teared down the side. I could finally take off my sweaty mask I that was how I wrapped things up. -Sayer
For Halloween in Chile I was dressed as Minnie Mouse. I had a Minnie Mouse bow headband, face paint, my hair in buns to look like ears and a long red shirt. For trick or treating I used a plastic bag for my candy. We had to trick or treat in the apartment so all the kids met up in the entrance. We went to the top and made our way down with all the kids. A lady asked me (in Spanish) to take a picture with her baby who was dressed up as a pirate. He was so cute. We got a tiny bag full of candy not as much as we would get at home, more than I end up eating. We got no chips, chocolate or really any candy that comes out of a cardboard box. But these candies were different than at home. Over half of them were kind of like taffy taffy but they were good. We got home and went to sort the candy and went to bed after a candy like day. -Danika
We went trick or treating in the apartment in Santiago. My costume was a zombie skeleton. -Gabriel
On the morning of the 31st we went on a hunt for inexpensive costumes. We ended up going to the Chinese market down the street and finding masks for $1000 chilean pesos (around $2CAD) and a Minnie Mouse bow headband for $4. Once the kids met in the apartment lobby, they took turns going to the top floor in the elevator and started going door to door together. Around 50 kids were trick or treating. You had to have a decoration on the door so kids knew which houses were participating. Halloween was far bigger than I expected. – Renelle
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