Another Chinese Halloween

Even though Halloween was on Sunday this year, we were able to celebrate it at the QSI Autumn Festival on Saturday. Of course Gavin and I weren't too original with coming up with different costumes this year, Nicole and Vika made up for that. Nicole thought way ahead and brought back a costume we had in storage from the States this summer. Vika only wanted to be a fairy so we put together the costume with her ballet leotard and tutu, along with fairy wings and a crown we found at Walmart. Yes, Walmart actually had a few Halloween items. Each year they seem to get more and more as they try to adopt this holiday.




We started the day by meeting up with our friends the Galicia's and walked down to the school together. We got some strange looks from the Chinese but we didn't care. We are always on show here just by looking our normal selves.
Rachel, Jonny, Gabriella and Natalie had a table selling items for the True Children's Home Orphanage. This is an orphan for Chinese children who have been abandoned because of deformities such as cleft palate. The money earned will go to help a child receive the necessary surgery to correct their condition so that they can hopefully be adopted and live a normal life.
The Autumn fair was like a Halloween Carnival with games, haunted house, and food. Nicole and her friend Kate were inseparable all day.
Vika showing her stuff with Torin the Jedi knight and his brother TJ the Yoda in training.