What I learned about Halloween today

  We used a short text about Halloween incorporating noun plurals for our English class today.  Our students did not know anything about this occasion, so we told them about pumpkins being carved into jack o' lanterns, children saying "Trick or Treat" for candy, costumes, bonfires and parties.  The lollipops (a kind of Blow-Pop) were definitely a hit, regardless of what they understood about today in the USA.  What did I learn?  They eat pumpkin, roast the seeds AND eat the leaves--majani ya maboga.  We have a wide variety of "salad" greens here, so it may be that we have eaten them already--gotta check with the cook.  They also told me that we could try to bake a pumpkin pie using the same method as they can bake cakes:  put about an inch of sand in a big pot; place your cake pan with batter on top of the sand and cover with a lid.  "Bake" over a charcoal fire.  This sounds like Girl Scouts!  We plan to try it--stay tuned for the results!  They are very interested in tasting pumpkin pie for the first time!  Happy Trick-or-Treating!