If we were all like Chau

< Pretty nice Jack-o-Lanterns, dontcha think? >

Hey hey! Today marks the first of October. And you know what that means! Yeah, orange leaves and red leaves and yellow leaves and brown leaves. Oh, and pumpkins. Pumpkins which we use with knives of some sort to completely kill the pumpkin with by carving out holes on the bottom and then taking all of it's innards out and then continue to carve out even more holes and then put in candles or lights of some sort to burn them from the insides for our amusement. We then put them outside of our houses for people to enjoy the sight of these pumpkin carcases. Not one, but millions of pumpkins are massacred each October. Crazy stuff eh? Oh how we love you so much, October.



 Speaking of October, in Canada, we have Thanksgiving in October. We get a day off and stuff one month before you people in the US. Hurhurr... Just think about all that turkey and food and turkey and food we get to have before you. Mmmm... Anyways, back to my original point, October is pretty much known for Halloween, so that's what I'll talk about.

Halloween is a holiday which was originally known as All Hallows' Eve back in the 16th century. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin".
I have no idea what that means, so don't ask me about it. I just copied it from Wikipedia, WHICH I WILL GIVE CREDIT TO AT THE BOTTOM SO DON'T SUE ME FOR PLAGIARISM!!!


Anyways, all of that stuff probably means nothing to you folks so I'll go ahead and talk about the modern Halloween that you can actually take part in. Nowadays, the main attraction people do on October 31st is Trick-or-Treating. What is Trick-or-Treating you may ask? All of you may already know what it is, but let's tell the viewers about it, just in case. Well, Trick-or-Treating is when everybody go around the streets at night in costumes, going from door to door asking complete strangers for candy. Yes, it's all very safe, everybody should do it. Also, as I said before, people also carve pumpkins as decorations and put them at their doorsteps each year.

There are also lots of Halloween attractions around this time of the year. It's pretty much just like your typical carnival except it takes place at night and everything is pretty scary. Spooky huh? No, of course not. I'm super brave, you just don't know it yet. Hmmm. There's still a lot more to do during Halloween, like how people tend to play tricks on Halloween, similar to April Fools day.  And there's Halloween costume parties going on everywhere with apple bobbing and all that other stuff.

Oh, hey look. There's an unnecessary picture of a Halloween bonfire? I wonder why it's there. Oh, maybe because PEOPLE GO CAMPING ON HALLOWEEN TOO. Yeah, uh huh. People go camping with a roaring bonfire as the campers gather around it and tell spooky ghost stories at night. The wind whistles through the withering trees and the wolves howl in a distance. Then suddenly a zombie comes out of nowhere and rips everyone's brains to shreds and eats them!!! Pretty good eh? I made that up like 2 seconds ago. Don't judge me.

< Yay candy!!! >

That's pretty much all that people do on Halloween. It's all really festive ( not in a Christmassy way, but more like a holiday-ish way since Halloween IS a holiday celebrated throughout the entire world) around this time of the year. A lot of people actually contribute to decorating their houses and stuff as opposed to some other less celebrated holidays like St. Patrick's Day or Easter. And oohhh man, general stores sell so many Halloween decorations and food and clothing and awww man, you name it. Even restaurants and convenience stores get decorated. This really helps set the mood.

However, even among us festive peeps, there's always that one tiny group of really "Grinch" type people who don't decorate, don't attend parties, don't do anything Halloween related AT ALL. They just stay home watching horror movies. Augh. Ikr. So boring.  No wait. It gets even worse. Some people don't even watch horror films at all. THEY STAY HOME AND PLAY THEIR ****ING XBOX. THOSE FREAKIN BNSFIUBGEIL AAAAUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! AIBFISUBSFUIBGUISLBLI!!!! GODDD.

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Yeah, final words or something. Unicef does donations and stuff... Uhh yeah. Cool. Bye...


Sources : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Alright thanks for reading another one of our posts, have a great October people, and have fun. Don't forget to comment and stuff. Yeah, ciao.