Even though its a few days past the big Halloween weekend, we wanted to catch you up with how we celebrated this 'non-Korean' holiday here in Busan.
We started out the weekend before with having some of our new and dear buds over to our home for some good old fashion pumpkin carving :). This was actually the first time since we have been here that we had friends over (our place is really hard to find...), and it felt so nice to be able to open up our home to nice friends and fun times.
A few things about this were the same as the carving tradition from home, and a few things were different. To start out with, it was almost impossible to find pumpkins, and when we did, they weren't really the same shape as those we have at home. They are a little shorter and wider here...though Im not really sure why.
Hayley, unfortunately, discovered that her pumpkin was filled with maggots when she took off the lid. How disgusting is that??? She is a trooper though, and put on some pink gloves and kept on digging. I would not of done that, or even thought about continuing with that pumpkin for a second..
Aside from Hayley's mishap, carving them was the same as the fun back home, but after they were all carved- we had trouble finding simple votive candles to put inside.
We ended up finding some candle sticks...so we had to make do :)
This was our pumpkin. I started out by trying to carve the Korean flag on it, but once I realized that half of it was on the 'underside' of the pumpkin, I switched gears and turned it into an abstract face, which ended up looking like an angry old man....
Finally, one thing Bryan and I have not really talked about on the blog is the trash system here in Korea. Each night of the week is dedicated to a specific form of trash (food trash, cardboards, metals, glass), and you can ONLY put that out. This requires a little bit more effort instead of the normal 'tossing it all in one bin' thing at home, but in the end Bryan and I feel that this a good system.
Also, instead of paying for trash in your utilities, you have to buy certain trash bags for your neighborhood, and your trash HAS to be put out in these. So, when Halloween was all said and done...we had to stuff these big ol suckers into our tiny neighborhood trash bags. Not the end of the world, but like I said, different.
Steph and Maddie's "crackhead pumpkin", our Korean Flag/angry face pumkin, Dana and Pete's cool looking skyline, and Hayley and Matt's 'Nightmare Before XMas' pumpkin
We even toasted pumpkin seeds!
It was all in all a wonderful night, and seeing our pumpkins lit up with the Busan skyline as a backdrop was really special. This put us in the Halloween mood, and got our week off to a great start.
xoxo!
Amy
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