Time Warping into November

So Halloween has come and gone in Odense and it was...as I expected it to be, I suppose. I know a lot of it was mental but it's hard not to think about what's going on in the states while trying to be in Denmark. A lot of people dressed up and there were a lot of people in The Larmer but the lack of prep on my part and lack of supplies on Denmark's part just kinda made it okay. I suggested to Cam that we be tacky American tourists and she was successful. I, however, was not. It didn't help that I'd made a point to avoid bringing American clothes and red flags. So yea, it was ok. The bar was really hot cuz of all of the people and I just wasn't diggin' it too much so I was into bed attempting to watch Dune by 2ish. Dune fell through, so I just crashed.

The best part of the day was when Cam, Krista, Beth, and I all had our own little celebration in our kitchen. Cam had Halloween plates, cups, fake spiderweb, and Krista and Beth got a pumpkin. So we all ate some snacks, bobbed for apples, and carved up a pumpkin to a Halloween soundtrack of Monster Mash and the Time Warp. The bobbing for apples was particularly entertaining, especially because Liang-Kai (our neighbor from Taiwan) joined us. He had never done any of this stuff before so it was fun to have him along for the ride. The pumpkin turned out pretty well, we all did a little bit. We also picked out all of the seeds and cooked them up and they were so yummy. I was obsessed, unfortunately it was a small pumpkin so not too many seeds. But yea, it was fun to get festive with each other and bogart the kitchen for once. We're planning on doing a little Thanksgiving too, that should be a good time.

But now it's November and it's time to seriously start buckling down. It's less than two months until I get home and it seems sometimes that I will collapse inside of myself I miss it so much, but dually I feel such an affinity for this little city and I'll be so sad when I leave it. It's a strange mix of feelings that I haven't experienced really. Hm. More to come.

Later.