Educational Halloween

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Clarissa

October 30, 2015

After seeing groups of kids in costumes in the street, I made a mad dash home and was in time finally to greet trick-or-treaters.

The kids don’t recognize my Ukrainian candy (manufactured at the candy factory of Ukraine’s president, by the way, and massively better than anything you can buy at Walmart), and keep asking, “What is this???”

I knew this would happen but I’m an educator. Everything needs to be an educational opportunity. The lesson here is: if you are too scared to open yourself to new cultural experiences, you might be depriving yourself of something delicious.

Finally, finally I have managed to greet trick-or-treaters.

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11 responses to “Educational Halloween”

Dreidel

October 30, 2015

“[They] keep asking, ‘What is this???’” The kids are accompanied by adults, right? — so you won’t get a rock through the window if they’re disappointed.

BTW, are you sure that have a sufficient supply of candy? It’s possible that, given how screwed up the treat-and-treat scheduling is in Illinois, you might get kids knocking at your door the entire weekend.

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1. Clarissa
  
  October 30, 2015
  
  Yes, at first I was all, “Go ahead, take several.” But now I’m thinking I need to keep it one piece per kid.
  
  Bigger kids are alone which is heartening. We are in the safest area ever.
  
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el

October 31, 2015

Have you seen any kids eating the candy? Did they like it?

How does the candy look like? What is its name?

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1. Clarissa
  
  October 31, 2015
  
  N bought a huge variety. I only hope that no candy with alcohol made it into the mix.
  
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2. Shakti
  
  October 31, 2015
  
  When I was a girl and went trick or treating, you did not eat the candy until your parents checked the bag at the end of the night. Once your parents decided they were normal candies, only then were you allowed to eat any of it. I never saw anyone eating candy in the middle of trick or treating.
  
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Anonymous

October 31, 2015

The main problem that I see here is that any non-American candies will probably have an insufficient amount of sugar.

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1. Jones
  
  November 1, 2015
  
  I assure you that the Northern Italian candies I tended to hand out on Halloween were in fact pretty much all sugar … 🙂
  
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J. Otto Pohl

October 31, 2015

I love Roshen chocolate. I eat a lot of it every time I go to Bishkek.

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Ol.

October 31, 2015

I noticed that there was much more candy variety when I was a kid. It seems that my son can only collect nestle candy bar and the same sort of lollipops.

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Ol.

October 31, 2015

The candies that can be found at Costco I guess.

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1. Clarissa
  
  October 31, 2015
  
  I hope the neighbors appreciate the variety I bring to the mix. But who knows, people are very resistant to new experiences around here.
  
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