Halloween in Spain!

As all of you know, this past weekend was none other than Halloween weekend. WOOP WOOP!  Here in Spain, they don't officially celebrate it, but they teach about it in schools and it appears to be spreading amongst the younger generation.  They will celebrate Halloween in schools here, and I even saw some groups of kids trick or treating in Villarrobledo last night.  I was walking up to the door of my apartment complex and they came up to me and says "TRICK OR TREAT!" in Spanish, and I said to them "Lo siento, no tengo dulces" (sorry, I don't have candy), and then I said "Happy Halloween!" and this boy looks at me like I'm crazy and turns to his friends and asks them if anyone else knows English, haha :).  So I said "No entiendes "Happy Halloween?", and one of his friends goes "SI! FELIZ HALLOWEEN!!" with a very strong, flegmy H :).  It made me smile, the kids here are so funny. 

Anyway,  I don't usually go to school on Fridays, but I went in this past Friday to celebrate Halloween with the kids and teachers.  They split everyone up into groups at the beginning of the day and had 6 stations (talleres) for the kids to travel around to and do fun halloween activities.  I showed "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", which a lot of the kids didn't understand (I could only find it in English!), however we chatted about it so they would get the gist of it, and it's just a Halloween classic.  I couldn't not share it :).  

Like I said before, the kids (and some of the teachers) will call me Mary Poppins, so I dressed as Mary Poppins for Halloween.  It was really funny--some kids knew who I was immediately too.  Awesome.  Here is a pic!

Halloween weekend here was REALLY fun.  Krista, our friend Haley, and I dressed up Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (for a little bit) and shared the Halloween culture with Spain.  It was SO funny to see people's facial expressions when we walked in to bars and discoteques.  We made a lot of friends though! It was a really fun and hilarious weekend.  Here are some pics of our costumes:

Milton from Office Space, a black halloween cat, and Colonel Sanders (my fav, hahaha)

Ursula from the Littler Mermaid :)

Ursula, Cruella DeVille, and The Evil Queen from Snow White

Oh! Also, the other day we tried to make Tortilla de Patata, which is a traditional Spanish dish.  Krista and I thought it turned out pretty well, but then we took it to show our neighbor and she laughed at us :).  I said "Maria Jose, this is our tortilla!" and she took a look at it and immediately said "NO!" hahaha :).  Today she showed us how to make a real tortilla, and I am hoping to perfect it by the time I leave Spain.  

Here is our tortilla americana :):

Welp, that's all for now!  I've got some lesson planning to do for tomorrow.  

Hope you all are well!