Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Halloween!

I know I've been really horrible at posting about my year, but I finally remembered to bring my camera with me to school on Friday and captured some smiling faces that I couldn't not share.  These kids are amazing and are the reason (along with the amazing teachers!) that I love my job!

We had an amazing Halloween celebration because LA LOVES Halloween.  I've never seen people like it more.  And it also gave the kids a safe place to celebrate the holiday and to have fun throughout the year.  The student council has been selling food at recess once a week to raise the money for this carnival.  There were games (I went in the dunk tank!), candy, hot dogs (wrapped in bacon, of course!), costumes, and, like every party in East LA, loud music and 4 "jumpers" (huge inflatables).  


The teachers all dressed as characters from Toy Story, and I was nominated to be Barbie, since I'm the only blonde at school (among all the teachers and kids!).  Here's what I looked like (sort of):


And the kids!
 One of my fave first graders.  He's Mayan (I think?), so he has a long pony tail that is always braided and some kids confuse him for a girl, but the hair worked perfectly for this Star Wars costume!

 I was trying to get just a picture of the vampire, but all the kinders are in 
love with getting their pictures taken, so I got the "tough boy" look :)  The vampire is the kid who stuck his middle finger up at me at the beginning of the year and now he is one of my favorites.  Lesson learned: don't judge people too soon!

 Bobbing for apples - gross!!

 Some 3rd graders (it's a class of 12 boys and 4 girls - waaay too much testosterone!)

 2nd grade brothers.  this is one of the cutest families - they have an older brother in 8th and he is such a protective older brother even though he's one of the "cool" kids in the school.

 I love this face

 Mrs. Vargas, the 2nd grade teacher getting ready to be dunked!

"Nerd" was the most popular costume this year


After the celebration and working the Haunted House that Colleen put on for the afterschool program, I went with the rest of my casa to San Diego for Halloween weekend and we got to have some fun with the other LA casas, the San Diego girls, and 2 casas from Phoenix.  And I had some of the best fish tacos ever.  Yum!

ps - Happy Dia de los Muertos!

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