Halloween is not very popular in Australia. Too American for most people's tastes. Which when you get to know Aussie culture, this fact is quite a crack-up. Australians are very happy to have "fancy dress" parties for pretty much any other occasion, like a Wednesday for instance, however, when it comes to Halloween most cant be bothered. Because of this, I was only hours away from sitting at home in costume, sulking. Lucky for me, I invited myself to a fancy dress (costume) Halloween party and my costume got to see the outside of my apartment after all.
As many of the people at the party had never dressed up for Halloween, there were a lot of dark and bloody costumes, a few devils, and of course witches (pretty much the stereo type of Halloween attire) and then me.... the maid. The people at the party embraced the holiday and I almost forgot I was in Australia.
The funniest part of the night though, had to be when the mayor of the suburb we were in, showed up with his wife, and 7 month old daughter (all not in costume). After offering to hold the sleeping baby, I proceeded to try to have a normal conversation with him about everything from work to America. Only later realizing how ridiculous I must have looked standing there talking politics all while dressed as a french maid. I am sure he took me seriously!
But when all was said in done, I had a fantastic Aussie Halloween and was very lucky to be among some Australian's willing to give Halloween a go!
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