YES! Today is Halloween but it's also All Saint's Eve. What do you celebrate? How do you celebrate this night? Do you wear costumes? Do you enjoy spooky stories?
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What's your opinion about Halloween?
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ReplyDeleteI am Minny Mouse (my nickname)
I think Halloween night is a great thing, especially for children. In the past we didn't celebrate this, but we are so influenced by the American traditions, like Santa Claus. This is similar.
Also, I think it is a good way for shops to sell masks and costumes. I never celebrate it, but my daughter is having a party at home with her friends and they have bought a lot of decorations and they are going to have dinner together. First they will dress with costumes like witchies, skeletons, mumies... And they'll make up their faces like real demons!Like they did last year.
I leave them at home and go out with my husband.
I have never liked horror films and I think we shouldn't forget tomorrow is the dead's day.
Wel, that's my opinion
M.M.
Hello teacher and partners!
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting blog. I like it.
I love horror films and scary films, like Hitchcock’s films. I think Halloween is a great occasion for those who like parties and dressing up with costumes. The funny and cheap thing is to do the costumes and decorations at home, because they are really expensive if you buy them in El Corte Inglés, for example. It is business for them. But it’s true children love it. And many adults too!
I would like to celebrate this party in United States. I think it must be very funny. For us this is still new. When I was young we didn’t celebrate this. We went to the cemetery on the first of November to take flowers to the dead relatives.
Tonight I am going to dress up as a scarecrow. (espantapájaros) and I am going out with some friends in Las Palmas. I’ll tell you tomorrow about it.
Thank you!
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteI agree with Minny Mouse and Batman about Halloween is a good time for children, but, in my opinion, the only thing that everybody gives importance nowadays is fun. I mean, we’re only interested in activities if they’re fun. So, ancient traditional parties are rising again trying to compete with Halloween. But, who are really interested in this kind of parties? Business, I think. There’s a new way to get more money
Hello everybody!
ReplyDeleteWell, I don’t celebrate Halloween. I’m more traditional because I prefer celebrate All Saint's Eve.
As every year around this time it is celebrated "All Saints Day", a festival which remembers the tradition of honoring and calling to mind of people who have died.
My family and I are visiting the cemetery to adorn and decorate their graves with flowers and pray to our dead relatives. It’s a bit sad but I think it’s important not to forget them. Then, we gather to taste an exquisite meal. And as there! In the afternoon we celebrate the tradition of the “finados” in which we eat popular roasted chestnuts and special sweets for the day as the bones of a saint (made of marzipan and egg yolk) and fritters (a mass of flour into a ball that is fried in abundant oil and filled with custard, cream or chocolate). A large number of people celebrate “finados” outdoors but as every time it is too cold takes place inside the houses.
It is also customary to represent the night of "All Saints Day" Don Juan Tenorio" Zorrilla. In Las Palmas is always celebrated the day before All Saints Day. It’s worth seeing.
In recent years this tradition of remembering to our loved ones is linked to the celebration of Halloween and it is becoming more popular and having more followers. I would not mind to wear a scary Halloween costumes if we do not forget our customs.
So long! See you later!
Hello everybody from beyond living world!
ReplyDeleteDon´t just stay there, stand up and come with us to greet the souls of our ancestors! but don´t forget to buy your elegant and indispensable dress before your meeting! Ain´t you want they look at you as a fashioned pagan?
There´s no more than business behind our current "imported traditions"! Well, you´ll do what finally gives you more fun!
Fortunately or not, remembering relatives whom passed away either recently or not, still remains a strong tradition in my family. I don´t regret it. I wish my offspring remember me in a similar way and may keep a day for praying for my soul!
C.R. Darwin
Firstly, I think Halloween is a businesss like others classmates have thought. Moreover, enough companys win a lot of money with it. Nevertheless, my friends and me usually celebrate a party this night, we dusguise terrifyingly and we have a good day.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I would like to recover the party "finaos" like Aghata have told, because it is a moment celebrates with you family roasting some chestnut and some maize thanks to a big fire. Furthermore, we should not forget to our relatives dead to visit cemetery.
My family had never celebrated Halloween, but for some years we have been organizing a costume party at a friend´s house where people dress up in different characters as witches, mummies, zombies, vampires… I think, how some classmates have said, Halloween is a festival both imported as a business created for some people, but I don´t find any reason in it for not celebrating this day. I believe that this and other festivals, imported, traditional or invented, are an opportunity to meet and enjoy with friends.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, we have the All Saints Day when people go to the cemeteries to adorn with flowers the graves of their dead relatives and pray for them. Also there are families who have lunch together, go to the church to pray…
In terms of horror movies and spooky stories I don´t particularly like. I have seen many of these movies but any night not specially this one.
To end up and always in my opinion, each one does what wants or likes, regardless of whatever.
See you!!
As everything that comes from the USA, a country with lots of influence in Europe, Halloween is becoming in one of the most popular event to celebrate in Spain over the last few years. Personally I don´t celebrate this festivity but I know many people who do and I strongly believe that people like so much this kind of party because they like the suspense, blood, death and above all to be scared. This feeling make them feel alive with lots of adrenaline running through their bodies. It is the same reason why people go to the cinema to watch horror movies. Anything that comes from the beyond make us scare but on the other hand we all want to joke and laugh about it, so it seems to me very well celebrate parties about this issue.
ReplyDeleteHi!My opinion about Halloween...well, I like it, I would like to celebrate here as America does. I really think it´s very funny not only for kids but for us too!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it´s not only a day to celebrate and do parties, to dress up... also people take flowers to their deaths. It´s a way to remember them and think, that in that night, they come back from the death and have an oportunity to feel something again and scare us!!!!!!!!