Karaganda RURL

On Sunday November 1 AC users celebrated Halloween. Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows’ Evening also known as Hallowe’en or All Hallows’ Eve.

Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses” and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.

The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween.

Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on  around Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery with the question, “Trick or treat?” The “trick” part of “trick or treat” is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters. Halloween  is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada.

And we also  celebrated it at our American corner. Olga Volkova, CC Program alumna and Mr. John Fiege, TESOL disscussed everything about Halloween with participants. Participants knew new words, shared with their experience celebrating this holiday. Mr. John Fiege told about how Аmerican people celebrate holiday in U.S.A. It was very interesting discussion. Then AC users  expressed themselves in pantomime  according to  new  words. After discussion we had a tea party.  We had a pleasant time. Thank you for our volunteers and AC users.