This is Halloween

Halloween is a day that, typically, I give very little thought to.  The weather is beginning to cool off, cute sweaters are all the rage (even though it’s actually too hot for that), and my boots are out in full force. Last year Saul and I (spur of the moment) decided to be Mario and Luigi and wear our costumes to a Clippers game. We would decorate our house with a few decorations but overall we put pretty little effort into it.

As Halloween approached this year, the weather was getting hotter (and still is), I don’t have any closed toe shoes aside from my workout sneakers, and sweaters are a thing of the past. We celebrated Halloween AmSam style. Starting about a week before Halloween we started making a whole bunch of pumpkin recipes. We made pumpkin mac n' cheese which was delicious! It was homemade (not of the easy mac variety) and came out fabulous. Then we moved on to pumpkin chili which while good, normal chili is about 100x better. Last we made double layer pumpkin cheesecake which pretty much is a pumpkin pie on top of a cheesecake (this was fabulous).

 Halloween just happened to fall during the same week as midterms. This was impeccable timing (insert sarcasm here) for midterms considering they dedicate a whole week to Halloween simply calling it “Spirit Week.” The schedule was as follows: Monday-Jersey Day (Saul and I wore USC gear). Tuesday – Miss Sophia Day (Miss Sophia is the AmSam transgender pageant); while it was pretty interesting to observe Saul and I decided to not participate on this day. Wednesday – FOB day (kids were supposed to dress up like they were “fresh off the boat.”) It was pretty hilarious because a day like this would simply not fly in the states but the kids didn’t see anything wrong with it and came looking like they got dressed in the dark. Thursday (Halloween) – was technically super hero day. Some students wore super hero gear while others simply wore Halloween costumes.

Thursday also marked the day of the infamous Halloween Rally which I unknowingly volunteered myself for. In AmSam, rallies are organized by class (i.e. Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors). Saul and I are senior advisors so we’re expected to help with rallies and other senior functions. Anyways, student council decided that the theme for this rally would be MTV Showdown where the students would have to perform to “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, do their best Lady Gaga, SpongeBob and Joker impersonations, and the advisors would have to do a skit to include the PowerPuff Girls and Ghost Rider (so incredibly random, I know). Well there are two transgender senior advisors and me (no other women) so I didn’t really have a choice but to help out with the PowerPuff Girls portion of the rally.  I agreed to be Bubbles (the blue one) again not really understanding what I was committing to.  Monday comes around and Sina say “Oh don’t worry, I’m just putting together a little skit.” SKIT?!! I was shocked. I thought we were just dressing up. It turned out that we would be doing a little Beyonce booty shaking, walking it out and our very best fake fighting.  I was terrified! Thursday came and I put my game face on and just went up there and did what had to be done.  My students were so shocked that “Ms. Chelsia can do back flips and dance.” Not to toot my own horn but I became Leone High School famous for like 2 days. I would be walking and hear “awesome dance Ms. Chelsia”  or “the rally was so good Ms.Chelsia.” Turns out the Senior class advisors one the PowerPuff Girls portion of the rally and we won the overall portion. So I suppose all is well that ends well however, I don’t think I’ll be volunteering myself for another rally anytime soon.

-C


P.S. I do have a video of this madness coming soon (thanks to the wonderful hubby), it just takes forever to upload with our slow internet.

This dance was serious business. Had to get some last minute practice in.

Sina, Jayleen and me

Right before we went on stage