On Thursday night we joined some of my students who were carving pumpkins in the dorms. I tried my hand at making a jack-o’-lantern, but the pumpkins were too small to really do anything fancy. Still, we had fun doing something American and spending some time with the students outside of class. Seth was, of course, the star of the show. The photographers who were there recording the event probably took twice as many pictures of Seth as everything else. One of my students told me she would wait ten years until Seth was old enough to date…kind of scary, actually. I’m hoping she meant to say “twenty” instead of “ten,” or maybe she was just trying to frighten me in the spirit of Halloween.On Friday we dressed up Seth in a bee costume and took him to visit the ladies at the college office. (These women are in love with Seth; they play with him for hours at a time and don’t seem to mind that they don’t get any work done while he’s there.) After dinner we took Seth trick-or-treating around the guesthouse. Then after Seth was in bed we watched Sleepy Hollow, an appropriately scary and cheesy movie all rolled (pun intended) into one.
Seth was such a cute little bumble bee for Halloween that he actually got his name in the paper. Benjamin was interviewed by a man writing a story for China Daily, which is China's English language newspaper. You can click here to check out the e-version of the article. Benjamin's comments aren't until the very end of the article, so you have to scroll down a bit. We thought it was pretty cool, and the newspaper clipping will be such a fun thing to put in Seth's scrapbook!
