Halloween doesn’t exist while I was growing up because it is not part of my culture or celebrate it before. Until moving to America, I have experienced the many holidays that I have never celebrated before; which included Halloween day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
In my culture, we have our own holidays that gather the families together just like Thanksgiving. However, after many years living in America, my family has gradually started to adopt the new culture and would celebrate sometimes. For example, Mom would set up Christmas tree in the house with twinkle lights on the tree. I came to America at a young age but have never gone to trick or treating . I was always scared and shy. On Halloween, I would just watch through the window, seeing children with different costumes and ringing door bells one by one for candies. HA-HA… After graduated from HS, I have found myself my very first job working at a discount store, where there’s almost everything you can think of. During holiday seasons, the store would sell decorations and many different holidays’ essentials. During the month of October, the store sells Halloween costumes, decorations and much more for this “Crazy and wild holiday”. Young children, grownup, people from different ages would appeared in the store shopping for Halloween. Guess whats my favorite part? Yup, that would be dressing up and giving out candies to the children.
For the years I have been working day, I have dressed up in different characters. This year, I have dressed up as a Zombie; the idea was from the walking dead. I really like to watch zombie series TV shows and Movie. So on this year’s Halloween I had so much fun putting makeup on my face and turned myself in a “zombie” with torn Shirt that has fake blood stains;Which made it looks like a real“walking dead”.
With my new look, I have candies really and staying by the door waiting for trick or treat people to come. Sometimes, younger children would come up to me and back up few steps because of my scary look. Then they smile and said “trick-or treat”. I replied with a big smile,” Happy Halloween” and hand them candies. I really enjoyed Halloween day and interacting with people came to trick or treating.
Its like childhood dream came true. At the end, I would feeling exhausted but the fun I had made all worth it. Really appreciated to my bosses for giving the opportunity that I didn’t have when I was younger. That day, I’m n ot only working but having fun at the same time. 🙂
