Week 25: TERRIFYING HALLOWEEN MADNESS

Warning: a huge spider and a living skeleton have been spotted roaming the streets!! Hide yourselves!!

Arachnophobia

ARGH SKELETON!!

Halloween is definitely one of my favourite holidays, because I really like candy and zombies. Halloween is actually a bigger deal in Japan than I was expecting; there were tons of Halloween goodies in all the stores, and costumes for kids, but I guess that kids here don't trick or treat at all, and although there definitely are Halloween parties for adults, none of the people I spoke to ever went to them.

To celebrate Halloween I wore an orange shirt and listened to Thriller on repeat. I also watched the terrifying classic films DOOM HOUSE and Monkey Shines. I actually saw Monkey Shines as a kid at my uncle's house, and I thought it was lame and not scary when I was 10. It has not held up well. It's about a guy who is injured in an accident and becomes a paraplegic, and his friend (or brother??) gives him a helper monkey that has been injected with human brains, and then the monkey becomes a homicidal maniac. It's as good as it sounds!! 

On Saturday this week I did really nothing; I was in the lab for most of the day (but I got some good results!!) and then I did groceries and went home and played video games.

But on Sunday I went on an amazing adventure with my labmate! He said that he wanted to hang out and chat to practise some English with me, and we ended up going (by car!!) to the ocean to see the fall colours on a small mountain. My favourite part was a stone map of the world, with a few extremely important locations indicated.

Another Sunday night. Except that this is YET ANOTHER LONG WEEKEND!! Man, Japan has a lot of holidays. This rules. Even better is that stores are generally open on holidays (at least the ones that I have seen so far), which is useful for buying everything that I have forgotten when I went shopping earlier, which happens often because I never make a list when I go grocery shopping.

I don't have any specific plans for tomorrow, but I definitely intend to do some napping!!