Sharing our cultures

It is Halloween and to share a bit of American culture Aimee and I decided to offer a pumpkin carving. We had two pumpkins and not many participants joined in the gruesome custom of carving the insides out of a poor defenseless pumpkin, but the few that did stay had a lot of fun and enjoyed this strange part of American culture.

Halloween was not a holiday that we celebrated in my family after I was about 10, but Aimee and her family have the tradition of pumpkin carving every year and therefore, we decided to offer it as a cultural experience. We will be having cultural nights throughout our time here, but the U.S.A. is in a group with the the one man from Haiti and the one woman from Australia. We were all sort of put into the left over group because we only have time for four cultural evenings (Africa, Europe, Asia, and the rest) so Aimee and I thought we would offer this as a small bit, albeit not the best part, of American culture. Personally I’d like to have chips and caso with fajitas topped off with a bit of line dancing, but I think that would be a cultural evening for Aimee as well. All in all it was a lot of fun and the people that participated enjoyed it and were glad that we shared a bit of our crazy American customs with them.