halloween

Posted on 1/11/2009 at 14:32 - Post Comment

dutchwomanabroad

sunday november 1st 2009

halloween, it drifted over also to the old continent, or better, back to. anyway, they do it here too. my children and i can remember very well the first time, in 2000 or so, somebody rang our door bell and we heard the famous words 'dolcetto o scerzetto'. translation is not needed, ofcourse you know what it means. big boy and little boy were both very little at that moment, and they asked me "when we are big, can we also do this?". i said ofcourse. i have almost always tried to do what my boys ask me, forfill them almost every joy(not material stuff though). i like bending over backwards for them, i want them to have a childhood which leaves them with loads of pleasant memories. so the first year we moved into our house in tegna, i thought it would be nice to do something for halloween. so i organized a bunch of kids and their mothers and we spent an afternoon or two on constructing masks. what excitment. after dark on the 31st we left our house in a big group with torches and lanterns and roamed the streets of our village. luckily someone had heard of halloween, so there were some treats for the kids. the year after that we had a halloween party at my house. with grandmother and me making a theme landscape of playmobil on the diningroom table. the house looked darn spooky with lights covered with purple paper and fake cobwebs all around. but those years are over. the boys don't feel like doing anything anymore for this famous day. it just isn't part of the culture here. last year or so mothers from the village had 'officially' organized a trip about town for this event. a day early, because sunday wasn't a good day to ring doorbells. how stupid can you get? i only open the door after dark. so the 15 or so children who came at four in the afternoon yesterday didn't get a thing. after that no one came by anymore. little boy went for a stroll with friends in the dark and it didn't come to their mind ring a bell or two. this tradition just doesn't fit here. 

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