Halloween Costumes - Page 2

Shanazel · 09-25-2006, 02:20 AM

Don't faint, Iris! This is your chance to bring genuine American culture to the benighted areas of the Old World where people don't get dresssed up like hookers, M&Ms and extinct dinosaurs to celebrate the beginning of the Celtic New Year and the night when the veils between worlds is thin and the dead come to dinner and little kids get sick on sweets. You go, girl! The civilized Netherlands is depending on you!

da Sage · 09-25-2006, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Angelofdance

MOON! NOOOOO! I'm living in the Netherlands (5 months in total) and I'll MISS Halloween!???? How could I have overlooked this??? Us students will have to do something at the guesthouse...oh goodnes...no Halloween?? Ahh!

iris *hyperventilates*

Time to spread the Joy of Halloween with a pumpkin carving party...you provide the pumpkins; BYOK (bring your own knife). Follow it up with a costume party...everyone likes costumes and beer!

Lekker Bier!!

Mariyam · 09-25-2006, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Angelofdance

MOON! NOOOOO! I'm living in the Netherlands (5 months in total) and I'll MISS Halloween!???? How could I have overlooked this??? Us students will have to do something at the guesthouse...oh goodnes...no Halloween?? Ahh!

iris *hyperventilates*

You'll eventually get over it, or you'll plan a yearly trip to the US/Canada for Halloween :p I'm in the "gotten over it" category... I mean, I'm too old for trick o' treatin', I'm just sad that my children will miss this! Oh well, we'll plan a trip to see my parents in Canada at the end of October I guess... But I'll start by having children first

Moon · 09-25-2006, 08:07 AM

Iris, if I remember right yiu live in Maastricht right now.

Well, most Dutch people won't dress up for halloween, but they'll do so for carnival! Just ask the Dutch students of your university, most people in the south of the Netherlands LOVE carnival, so you still have the chance of dressing up

(Once I was in Turkey during carnival and I met a couple from Maastricht. They were one of the few people from the south that hated carnival, so they went on holiday every year to flee from it

)

Angelofdance · 09-25-2006, 08:13 AM

Hee hee hee!

I can't tell from some of the posts if they were snide or also joking : ) But all in good fun. I will miss Halloween (especially which all of these students), though of course I adore Maastricht and wouldn't dream to change it. Perhaps just an international student party is in works!

And Moon, isn't the week long celebration of Carinval in February? Or is there a time before that? I'm leaving in early February, I'd be sad to miss out : (

iris

Moon · 09-25-2006, 11:14 AM

Actually I don't really now, I don't celebrate it myself. I thought November 11th was the carnival date but the celebration is somewhere in February

It would be a pity if you miss it

Mariyam · 09-25-2006, 11:20 AM

Carnival is in February, it's the "party" that culminates with the Mardi Gras celebrations, before lent begins

In Holland it's mostly popular in the south of the country, I suppose mainly because there is a bigger proportion of Catholics in that area. But nowadays, I ain't sure there is a lot of people who are celebrating Carnival for religious reasons. Most are just there for the party! :p

Shanazel · 09-25-2006, 02:39 PM

Sometimes I think the main reason for Halloween is so all those gardeners have something to do with their bumper crops of pumkins other than make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, an American holiday the last Thursday in November. Seems like we'd come up with a holiday to use up all that rubbarb and zucchini, too... I have heard of "Leave a Zucchini on a Neightbor's Front Porch Day" in August. Around here, people lock their doors when the zucchini start pouring in!

Moon · 09-25-2006, 04:32 PM

My American friend makes a thanksgiving dinner every year, so nice! But I really don't like pumpkin pie... I gave a piece to one of my corridor mates and now he's begging me to make a pumpkin pie whenever he sees me

Shanazel · 09-25-2006, 07:22 PM

Pumpkin pie is not my favorite, either, but I have a recipe for pumpkin cheese cake that is wonderful, especially if you like the taste of ginger.

I knew a girl who went to a party dressed as a landscape painting one year and an abstract painting the next(her husband was an artist who always dressed as the survivor of a Hell's Angels' rumble) I wonder if one could come up with a pumpkin pie costume?

09-25-2006, 02:20 AM	#11 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,559	Don't faint, Iris! This is your chance to bring genuine American culture to the benighted areas of the Old World where people don't get dresssed up like hookers, M&Ms and extinct dinosaurs to celebrate the beginning of the Celtic New Year and the night when the veils between worlds is thin and the dead come to dinner and little kids get sick on sweets. You go, girl! The civilized Netherlands is depending on you!

09-25-2006, 08:07 AM	#14 (permalink)
Moon V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 3,621	Iris, if I remember right yiu live in Maastricht right now. Well, most Dutch people won't dress up for halloween, but they'll do so for carnival! Just ask the Dutch students of your university, most people in the south of the Netherlands LOVE carnival, so you still have the chance of dressing up (Once I was in Turkey during carnival and I met a couple from Maastricht. They were one of the few people from the south that hated carnival, so they went on holiday every year to flee from it )

09-25-2006, 08:13 AM	#15 (permalink)
Angelofdance Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 20	Hee hee hee! I can't tell from some of the posts if they were snide or also joking : ) But all in good fun. I will miss Halloween (especially which all of these students), though of course I adore Maastricht and wouldn't dream to change it. Perhaps just an international student party is in works! And Moon, isn't the week long celebration of Carinval in February? Or is there a time before that? I'm leaving in early February, I'd be sad to miss out : ( iris

09-25-2006, 11:14 AM	#16 (permalink)
Moon V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 3,621	Actually I don't really now, I don't celebrate it myself. I thought November 11th was the carnival date but the celebration is somewhere in February It would be a pity if you miss it

09-25-2006, 11:20 AM	#17 (permalink)
Mariyam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 263	Carnival is in February, it's the "party" that culminates with the Mardi Gras celebrations, before lent begins In Holland it's mostly popular in the south of the country, I suppose mainly because there is a bigger proportion of Catholics in that area. But nowadays, I ain't sure there is a lot of people who are celebrating Carnival for religious reasons. Most are just there for the party! :p

09-25-2006, 02:39 PM	#18 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,559	Sometimes I think the main reason for Halloween is so all those gardeners have something to do with their bumper crops of pumkins other than make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, an American holiday the last Thursday in November. Seems like we'd come up with a holiday to use up all that rubbarb and zucchini, too... I have heard of "Leave a Zucchini on a Neightbor's Front Porch Day" in August. Around here, people lock their doors when the zucchini start pouring in!

09-25-2006, 04:32 PM	#19 (permalink)
Moon V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 3,621	My American friend makes a thanksgiving dinner every year, so nice! But I really don't like pumpkin pie... I gave a piece to one of my corridor mates and now he's begging me to make a pumpkin pie whenever he sees me

09-25-2006, 07:22 PM	#20 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,559	Pumpkin pie is not my favorite, either, but I have a recipe for pumpkin cheese cake that is wonderful, especially if you like the taste of ginger. I knew a girl who went to a party dressed as a landscape painting one year and an abstract painting the next(her husband was an artist who always dressed as the survivor of a Hell's Angels' rumble) I wonder if one could come up with a pumpkin pie costume?