Tuesday, November 1, 2011

My Hungarian Halloween!

One of my classmates, the girl on the far left Dori, invited me to her house to celebrate Halloween. She and her mom told all the neighbors to decorate their houses, buy candy, and have their kids go tricker-treating on Halloween. We Saturday afternoon two of my other class mates, Panni (the girl next to Dori) and another Dori (the girl next to me) rode the train to Nyíregyháza, a town about 40 minutes from Debrecen, where Dori lives. Dori and her family picked us up from the train station and then took us to have some fun! First we went to a go-cart track that was in a garage! It was tuns of fun and I LOVED going fast! Plus it was fun to drive again :) Then we went bowling. This was hilarious

because i do not think that any of the them had
Bowled before! They usually threw gutter-balls that went strait into the gutter with a thunk! It was interesting because the bowling alley was something similar to ours at home but only with five or six lanes. It was even the same brand as at the Back Bowl. The next day was... halloween!! Yahoo :) In the  morning Dori showed us around town. I think that it is a rather new town. They had lots of American things and a lot of the neighbor hoods and buildings were very modern. Then we went back to her house were we had lunch. We had a Romanian food which was meat in a spicy sauce mixed in with french fries and it was very good! After lunch Dori's little sister came home and she was SO cute! She was so curious about me and kept trying to talk to me. I could not understand her very well and she could not understand me at all, ha ha.
But we still had a lot of fun together. We all drew and then decorated Doris house with Halloween decorations. Once it got dark we started changing and getting ready for the night! I decided to be a farmer and Dori let me use some overalls that she had. The three of them wanted to be witches ha ha. It was a good choice because I think every girl in the US has been a witch for one halloween or another.
When it became dark all the neighbors showed up at our house. There were kids from the age of 3 to 20 and who were dressed as zombies, ghosts, and things that I do not even know what! We all walked around together from house to house! When we got to the first house where no one answered the door every one started chanting VC PAPIR!! Or in english TOLIT PAPER! I was so surprised, because that only happens in moves,
And I had never TPed a house before! But they thought that was part of the holiday so by the end of the night we used put 4 or 5 rolls of paper. We got lots and lots of yummy candy, but it is Hungarian candy and really different! There are no snickers, twirlers, or pixy sticks, but lots of yummy chocolates and lots of hard fruit candies. The neighbors did a great job decorating their houses, and a lot of them even carved pumpkins! I did not get to, but there is always next year! We stayed up really late laughing and talking and of course eating all the candy! The next day we were super tired and so just hung out around Doris house.
We watched TV with her sister who insisted we watch Sweet Life on Deck, and Phineas and Ferb! Then we watched the Ugly Truth in Hungarian :) HA HA. Even though it was not an american Halloween at all, it was still an amazing one and one I will defiantly never forget. Then before we left they had a little birthday suprise for me! We cake and then they gave me a present! It is a very beautiful blue shirt! They told me it is from them, and two other girls in my class! :)

1 comment:

  1. happy birthday tomorrow!!!!!!!!! did you get anything fun from the states?

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