Halloween macht Spass!

It has been almost a month since I've blogged, but I have been so busy! Several weeks were pretty uneventful, with work and school taking up most of my time. Thank goodness I'm quitting Starbucks!

Halloween weekend, however, was really fun! I have a new roommate, Katrin, who is here from Germany for an internship. We have spent a lot of time hanging out, and I'm so glad that she moved into the house! We are currenly working on our own slang with a mixture of english and the very limited German that I remember.

On Friday, Kat, Erica, and I went to Cox Farms to pick out a pumpkin. We got there shortly before closing, but it really was beautiful with the sun setting behind the farm and the last minute families looking for their jack-o-lanterns. We got our perfect pumpkin and spent awhile looking at the goats and talking to their keeper.




When we got home, my roommates and I carved the pumpkin and made yummy pumpkin soup and baked the seeds. I had to be up early for work the next morning, so it was a pretty tame but really enjoyable night. It was especially fun because it was the first time that Martha and Kat had carved pumpkins before! We named ours Jack Martha and he is still sitting on the porch.



The next day (Saturday) we had a day-after-Halloween costume party! Almost everyone dressed up, and the party went on until the wee morning hours. Mostly it was Allison's friends (since she is local) but Martha brought some Ugandan friends, Kat brought a group of Germans that she has connected with here, and I invited some people from school. Our big house was pretty full, but we didn't have any problems with the landlord and, despite a few uninviteds who had to be kicked out, everything went very smoothly. Here are some pictures of us in costume:





So that was my Halloween weekend! Expect more blogging soon, since I am going to an OBAMA rally tonight and then voting on Tuesday!