Piayot Goes to France

Halloween Celebration

Back in the Philippines, I spent Halloweens with my family in MegaMall, accompanying my cousin Joshua (when he was still small because now he's taller than me already) go around the shops shouting out "Trick or Treat!" We would go home carrying loads of candies which we would then distribute to our other cousins at night when we have our own version of Halloween celebration. This celebration is a yearly event wherein each house in the compound would take turns decorating their houses with booby traps and frightening sights, and then invite the kids (and sometimes even the adults) from the other house (2 houses in the compound). It would be similar to going into a haunted house in the arcade, only this time it was better because it would be our uncle, or tita, or my cousins who would be spooking you. Afterwards, at the end of our explorations, we'll all settle down, exchange candies, eat whatever food has been served by the adults, climb up to the room of one of us kids and share ghost stories while chewing on our newly acquired candy treasures.

Trick or Treating at Mega Mall ended when my cousin was too old already to partake in such events in the mall. This year however, I regained my chaperone status! I, together with one parent, accompanied Nicolas and Clara (Tita Juliete's kids), and Clara's friend Cassandra, go around Linselles buzzing the doorbell or knocking at the door, watching them shout out "bonbon monsieur" (i have to edit this... i don't know the exact thing they were saying because as you know, I'm still not fluent in French) when they were lucky to have someone open the door. We went through 2 streets only but we ended up with almost 3 kilos of candies. Hehehe! Success!!

Afterwards, we returned to Tita Juliete who had prepared a nice meal for everyone since there was a small Filipino reunion during the night also. (Oops, now that I think of it, it's not that small because there's Tita Juliette, Tito Olivier, Natalie, Clara, Nicolas, Tita Myrna, Dominique, Fritz, Antoine, Sophia, and I - 11! But compared to the typical Filipino reunion here which is comprised of 15 or more than 15 people, 11 is small. hehe). Tita prepared Raclette, salad, monggo and palitaw!

(Comments:
1. Raclette is a fancy french dish. You bring out your raclette cooker, place cheese(the kind of which is often called raclette) in small pans, put them back on the cooker, chat with your friends and remove the skin from the potatoes while waiting for the cheese to melt. When the cheese has melted, you pour it over your potatoes and place cold cuts to wrap the bunch, and there you go! Yummy!
2. Yes, there's monggo! Yehey!)

Since I was going a bit crazy, I shaped the last palitaw as a heart. And then, we remembered Fritz' birthday was last October 30, so we thought of making it her small cake, sprinkled candy on top and placed a candle on it! Hehehe. It was so funny but cute!

We exchanged stories until half past midnight. At the end of the party, our jaws were so tired from all the laughing. Whew. :)

posted by Pia @ 8:11 AM