First was my friend Eric's birthday party (if you don't remember, he is my friend who works at the US Embassy in Baku). The party was a costume party where we were all encouraged to wear 70's outfits because Eric was born in the 70's. Realizing that we couldn't find 70's outfits very easily in Azerbaijan, Beth and I decided to get creative. We made a little harmless joke at Eric's expense by dressing as cave women and saying that, as neither of us were alive in the 70's and it was just SO long ago, we could only imagine that this was how people dressed! He loved it. And we were the hit of the party, winning "spicy-est" costume (our prize was a thing of spices from America!).
Then I came home just in time to celebrate the real holiday with my host family. It was a nice change from the crazy Halloween party that Beth and I had last year at my school. This time I stayed home and my host sisters and I carved three pumpkins, with the help of my counterpart Tamilə müəllim. And thanks to my mom sending an awesome pumpkin carving kit, we had all these sweet little carving knives that worked wayyy better than our big kitchen knives did last year. Our jack-o-lanterns were pretty sweet, if I do say so myself!
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