All Hallow's Eve

Because this year was my last Halloween at the University of Madison, I thought it might be proper for me to reflect upon my experiences with the Holiday. [Random Fact: for those of you who do not know, the culture of Halloween as the modern world knows it today is a North American (US & Canada) invention but the holiday originates from Ireland.]

This year was my first time going to State Street since they began to charge money for entrance. The last time I went was the last time it was free...and believe me, I miss the chaos. It wasn't as exciting this year, but I guess something had to be done to control the out-of-state folks who came just to relish in the mayhem. This year I even got to watch the State Street event from the roof of an apartment on State Street!

Anyways, I thought I'd rate all of my costumes from across my years and show you the best, worst, and simplest ones. I've gone as many things and people...Indiana Jones, a cowboy, a zombie, and so on. I think the simplest costume I ever went as was...

A man getting eaten by a shark. I took the shark costume, threw it on over my body. Costume complete. This was my freshmen year at UW.

But some people on State Street liked it. I, however, was not too proud of myself. My best costume, the pinnacle of my creativity, I think, was...

Kim Jong Il, Glorious Leader of North Korea.This was my costume THIS year.

People love to make fun of that guy. However, a costume they would make fun of even more is my worst costume, which was...

Peter Pan. How manly. If I had gone as Hercules maybe I would have grown up to be over six feet tall.

Now that my last Halloween at UW is over, I think Halloween will only get boring for me unless I have Halloween parties to still go to. From here out in, Halloween will mostly just mean handing out candy to trick-or-treaters until I have kids of my own who I have to lead around to get candy (that part will be fun, I suppose). I also get to look forward to dressing up my children in horrendous cutsie costumes so that they grow up with a grudge against me, haha.

This is Michael of GUTS: Conversational English, signing off once again.