Halloween, for some people, it provides an excuse to become a character, person, ghost, something that they have secretly admired. For others, it's the day to store up yearly amount of candies and chocolate for free. I guess Halloween has more meanings to some people than some others.
In Japan, where the Halloween as a festival is quite a recent influx along with other western influences, some choose to go with the flow and some remain the way they have always been OR actually still enjoy the festival as a spectator.
Anyway at school, it was Halloween! Thanks to the majority of Americans, (let's not forget that Halloween is only mainly celebrated in North America!!) we all got to enjoy looking at interesting outfits and taking heaps of pictures of them. I heard some complaints from the people who dressed-up, about how tiring it was to be a model for the entire day for Japanese picture takers, but what do you expect?! You (and myself of course) always take pictures of them, let them take pictures of you too!!
p.s I added some pics that I took that day, since Halloween is foreign for me too, i enjoyed being a spectator just like some other Japanese did!!
3 comments:
How are these photos illustrating Halloween? These photos are lacking the usual quality of annnnnnnnna... Is there Halloween in Korea? Did you dress up?
actually i did look back at these pics and thought they were lacking the visual that I wanted to describe but i had no other option to make it better since i only took pics of them (who were dressed up) just like any other japanese were doing that day!! What I had in mind was a pic of japanese taking pics of us, foreigners or a pic of Japanese in usual daily outfits and basically only foreigners dressed up for the day.
But I failed to capture that..
We don't have Halloween in Korea, and even in Australia, it wasn't so popular. I didn't dress up.
But I think it would be so much more fun to be all dressed up and ready to celebrate no else where but in America!!!
HEY.. I like it^_^
I see some of my friends in there too(Hola Constanza, como estas..)
Critically though, it would be nice to rephrase some of the things you said about Holloween, and maybe add more about how it felt(from those whom you got to engage with like the zombie guy or the one in the sumo suit)to be all dressed up- ie the "American perspective" ne.
Otherwise, maybe add a link to your facebook page(if possible)
Good expression overall
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