Last year's Halloween was so uneventful, but that changed this year (thank goodness). What I never realised about the UK is that Halloween is actually really big here. It's getting bigger in Australia, but it's still not that huge, so it was so exciting to discover that it's actually a big deal, with most shops decorating their windows, Halloween things sold at Tescos and other supermarkets and most importantly, that everyone dresses up. One of the benefits about living on student accommodation is that everyone goes all out with the face paint, costumes and fake blood.
I got to live out my vampiric dream and dress up in an adorable black and red tutu dress thing with black lace arm gloves and vampire collar and covered my mouth with fake blood and made my eyes cry fake blood... this is actually a childhood dream come true (I was a weird kid). It was such a fun night with a whole group of us joining the pandemonium of a nightclub and dancing all night and morning. Which leads to the song of the day, the old but incredibly timeless classic "The Monster Mash"
I was introduced to this song by my dad as a little kid and we always sing along and do the voices whenever we hear it. It's just a fun, lighthearted and corny song by Bobby Pickett about how he (Boris) was "working in the lab late one night, when [his] eyes beheld an eerie sight. For [his] monster from his slab began to rise and [how] suddenly to [his] surprise... He did the mash. He did the monster mash..."
And it's pretty much a prerequisite when listening to this song, to dance in the most ridiculous way possible. It doesn't matter what you look like, the crazier the better, especially on Halloween.
I got to live out my vampiric dream and dress up in an adorable black and red tutu dress thing with black lace arm gloves and vampire collar and covered my mouth with fake blood and made my eyes cry fake blood... this is actually a childhood dream come true (I was a weird kid). It was such a fun night with a whole group of us joining the pandemonium of a nightclub and dancing all night and morning. Which leads to the song of the day, the old but incredibly timeless classic "The Monster Mash"
I was introduced to this song by my dad as a little kid and we always sing along and do the voices whenever we hear it. It's just a fun, lighthearted and corny song by Bobby Pickett about how he (Boris) was "working in the lab late one night, when [his] eyes beheld an eerie sight. For [his] monster from his slab began to rise and [how] suddenly to [his] surprise... He did the mash. He did the monster mash..."
And it's pretty much a prerequisite when listening to this song, to dance in the most ridiculous way possible. It doesn't matter what you look like, the crazier the better, especially on Halloween.
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