Halloween Party (1)

I did go to the hospital this morning. The Japanese health system is great but sometimes the machines look like they’re from the 60’s. Today was no different and they even used bent paper clips to show which was the left and right arm on the x-rays. Luckily there are no fractures, just bad bruising. I’m all strapped up and ready to go.

Tonight was the Halloween party at the orphanage. We only have 5 students so we invited the other children from the orphanage and we were happy that around 30 showed up. We all got there early to set up all the different activities we had planned.

We had a candy bag corner, fruit punch, grape bobbing, craft corner, pin the nose on the pumpkin, candy jar guessing game and a Halloween movie! Each time the kids completed an activity they had to shout “Trick-or-treat” to get candy. After about 45 minutes, everyone’s candy bags were full so we all sat down and watched the movie.
It felt so good doing something for all of them and at the end of the party they all wanted a little reminder of the night. They ran around pulling the smallest of decorations off the walls and asking if they could keep them. I guess we’d better strat planning the Christmas Party!