Chinese Halloween

Halloween week was filled with several festivities. The celebration started on Wednesday with a Halloween Costume party at a LKF bar called Sugar that was put on for exchange students throughout Hong Kong. I was pretty impressed because everyone ended up going all out with their costumes!

Debbie and I went shopping for costumes at this crazy little shop in Mong Kok. There were bags, masks, boas, make up... on the floor in bags, hanging on the walls, hanging from the ceiling, hanging outside the shop, everywhere. It was the most chaotic shop I have ever been in and so tiny!! Welcome to Asia yet again. We found some interesting costumes, but decided on firefighter and pirate wench. The next day I went back with Andrew to find him a costume and somehow got talked into buying a black wavy wig because it would just complete the outfit!

The crazy Halloween store

Remember that the costume party was on a Wednesday so as we walked through the streets to the bar everyone stared. Lots of people were taking pictures of us with their phones and then we all gathered and posed for them to make it easier. We went to the Halloween costume party and were the first ones there. Tons of people ended up coming in great outfits! There was a group of 5 or 6 guys from another school that were different animals in jumpsuits with hats of the animal's head. Great. My favorite costume was our friend Lauren that made hers herself. It was a skintight black outfit that she had painted a skeleton on. It looked so good!! The evening was pretty normal except for the fact that everyone looked a bit odd with the costumes.

Taking a picture with a local

The next day we had tickets to the Ocean Park Halloween Bash 2010. Ocean Park is the amusement park we visited earlier in the semester. It is known for having an extremely elaborate and scary Halloween attraction every night during October. Yvie, Meli, Andrew, Christine, and I went together and we scared from the moment we walked in! The person greeting you has a chainsaw that he is trying to attack you with. We then walked to the bathroom and about 3 people jumped out at us from nowhere! In total there were 8 Haunted Houses you could visit so we started at the Museum of Horror. Yvie and I walked through clutching each other's hands! The makeup and costumes were so detailed and looked amazing! I kept laughing the entire time we walked through and after someone scared me I proceeded to tell them, oh wow, you are frightening OR your outfit is great! We went to a total of 3 Haunted Houses, one being a laser tag type experience. We also got to go on their biggest roller coaster called The Dragon. The entire park was decorated so well and the people walking through the park were very scary! We had a blast!

The best girl we saw. SO odd.

The next big Halloween event was the day itself. Lots of people had work to do so there was a relatively small group of us exchange students that went to LKF for the evening, but it was still a good time. Walking up the street, which they had blocked off for the big event, people were stationed with their cameras to get pictures of all the costumes coming in. Andrew and I stood at the entrance to the street we were going to for literally 10 minutes taking pictures with different people that kept joining in with us. Finally I said, okay everyone cameras up! This way I got a picture of all the photographers and it turned out pretty well! Everyone met at Oysters, PolyU's standard starting point... and then never left. My new roommate, Agnes from Hong Kong, was at Oyster's so I got to see her and buy her a drink! (She is really cool and sweet) Eventually made our way home after another fun night of costumes!

Group on Halloween (Agnes on Left)