Melancholik!: Trick or Treat?

Halloween has just been recently adopted in my country probably because we don’t have pumpkins around which is by far the most famous symbol of the event.

Three years ago, my childhood friends and I decided to hold a costume party for Halloween just for the sake of fun. We didn’t expect that it might become an annual celebration since it was merely a random idea. Turned out, we’ve been having this party three years in a row.

Our theme for this year's party was “Trick or Treat.” All of us were basically dressed in scary attires in line with the theme. Here’s an idea of how the party goes. A notification is very important to gather us around resulting to the preparation of the invitation which is posted online. The decorations are never forgotten, of course. The orange and black color scheme does the trick. Fake cobwebs, plastic skeletons, and paper bats are staple ornaments creating a spooky effect. A background music adds up more spice – just a few horror movie soundtrack on repeat and we’re good to go. To make sure all of us have something to eat, every person coming should bring a dish as a contribution, in other words, potluck. A Halloween themed food would be desirable but not compulsory. What’s required though is the costume. There is a “No Costume, No Entry” policy for our party. This is actually for everybody to have fun and to be fair and square to those who’ve made effort with their costumes. Thriller by Michael Jackson is perfect as a spooky dance music, that’s why we made it as the dance theme song for this year’s party. After the eating and picture-taking, we prepare parlor games for everyone to enjoy, like the mummy wrap game. It takes a lot of effort to don the costumes, so we make sure to give a humble prize to the spookiest person before we all bid farewell for the night.

After the party, all of us went home with smiles on our faces and a memory to live by as all of us enjoyed our Halloween celebration in a fun and spooky fashion.