haunted house

All this week we have been preparing for our haunted house and today was the big day! Yesterday Nathan (our half-Australian, half-Spanish supervisor/coordinator) told us that the kids would start going through the haunted house between 12:15 and 12:30, so we all decided we would come at 10:30 to finish up some last-minute preparations and then get into costume! So we were all ready to go at 12:15 when Nathan comes in and says the entire school is still doing a Halloween activity and won't be able to go through the haunted house until after lunch--at 3pm. We were furious to say the least. He invited us to go out with all the teachers to a bar for lunch, but we were all dressed up in our costumes, with our faces painted, and didn't feel like going out in public looking like vampires/mummies/corpses/witches; plus. we didn't want the kids to see us before the haunted house. So, I jokingly asked him if the school was going to provide us with lunch, since we weren't expecting to say there for so long...he just kind of laughed it off and didn't really answer. He said we could eat in the cafeteria, but he didn't say it would be free. We were starving too, since we missed the snack/breakfast the teachers eat at 11:30 during the kids' recess. So we sat there in the assembly room/auditorium for two hours until finally the school secretary, Gema, came in with the director of the school and she offered us a free lunch in the cafeteria (it normally costs 4,50 €). The director of the school was furious that everything was so poorly organized. We felt bad for ratting Nathan out, but I'm glad that the director knew what was really happening and what a mess it was. We had a great lunch (bread, cauliflower, pumpkin soup, chicken, croquetas, eggrolls, salad, fresh fruit, and an arroz con leche cake!) and then got ready for the kids to come through the haunted house!

The kids were so excited for the haunted house and we just wanted to get it over with and go home at that point! The kids and the teachers LOVED the haunted house! Some kids cried and had to leave and then others were too cool and saying things like, "You don't scare me"; "Hello, beautiful" etc., but we got a ton of compliments and everyone was really impressed!

Here are a few photos from the festivities : )