Hey everyone! I just thought I'd post about my fall break/Halloween weekend/Monday, because quite a few funny stories stemmed from the events that happened over those few days, and I thought it might be nice to make y'all laugh a little :). First off, a friend named Jonathon and I went to another friend's, my suitemate Katelyn's actually, house for fall break, to go to her church's Lebanese/Middle Eastern food festival and a local haunted furnace that had been converted into a haunted house (cue lightning). While at the food festival, I ate Kibbee, a delicious Lebanese dish, as well as kaak (which is somewhat cookie like and said 'kike'). I also bought my sister a bedlah (one of those jingly jangly skirt things the dancers wear), much to the amusement of my friends, who joked it was really for me.
After the food festival, Katelyn, David (her cousin), Ryan (her brother), Jonathon and I all headed to the furnace, and I've got to say, it was a TON of fun. Partly because I discovered that I completely FAIL at haunted houses--I kept laughing! I was truly in amazement at the makeup jobs these people had… it was so impressive! Funny story: at one point, this monster guy was shouting something, and I didn't understand him, so I yelled 'what did you say?', and then he hopped up on the other side of the fence from us and shouted 'do you wanna die little girl?.' He wound up asking if I wanted him to come over the fence, to which I responded 'I just wanted to know what you said!,' and he wound up doing just that. While he was storming in my general direction, I raised my hand, because I wasn't sure he'd be able to see me in the dark, and he yelled 'I can find you little girl! You don't need to be raisin' your hand!'. After he came over, he threatened to take out my teeth and kill me and all sorts of stuff, and I just said I was sorry, I just wanted to know what he'd said xD. He also said that I was gonna bust my head open inside the furnace, and that he'd come steal my teeth then, and I said 'thank you for waiting until they're out of my head!' automatically, cause seriously, who wants their teeth ripped out? Katelyn was livid that I'd 'attracted' the monster to us, and I said I'd try to do better. I guess that pretty much sums up my general attitude throughout the haunted furnace--genuinely impressed and fascinated, but not remotely scared, and cracking up quite a bit.
After the furnace, we went back to Katelyn's house, and then we watched Elizabethtown per Jonathon's recommendation. It was actually really funny and heartwarming, and I loved it :). After the movie, he and I just talked for a while, until eventually we fell asleep.
On Monday, Halloween, a couple days after our visit at Katelyn's house, she approached me and said that she was upset with me, that I was a terrible house guest, and that I'd offended her mother by acting 'weird'. The point is my Halloween had a bit of a rough start. But getting into costume (I was a ballerina style bat) was fun, and so was eating with Jonathon and Katelyn despite the unresolved tensions. Jonathon was a pirate for the first half of the day, and the Phantom of the Opera for the night (and our friend Lin was his Christine). Katelyn was a creepy porcelain doll, and other costumes of my good friends include Slytherin quidditch player, Cheshire cat, and Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Overall, Halloween was a lot of fun.
Random related things:
- You know that bedlah I got for my sister? Turns out she just bought one, so I get to keep the one I got--it WAS for me, after all, much to my friends' amusement.
- One of the main parts of Elizabethtown is when one of the characters sends another off on a journey, with a map that begins "this is a very unusual map"--remember that one for a future post ;).
- Jonathon suggested writing thank you notes to Katelyn's family for letting us stay, and within mine was an apology for whatever I did to offend. While chatting with Katelyn the other day, she said her mom said thanks for the note.
- I'm really freaking tired.
