But, after I mentioned this friendly behavior to my friend, she said, “They were laughing at you and your stupid pumpkin.”

It was like waving a flag, ‘look at me, I’m a foreigner.’

Oh well.

Recently a student told me that in Liber had a festival called: ‘the Lantern Parade’. They lit lanterns, specifically Jack O’ Lanterns. People gathered in the main square and went on a spooky night time walk.

During Communism, it was ‘the Big October Revolution’, which celebrated the Bolshevik Revolution and the ship, Aurora.

Interesting to see how some holidays change, but Jack O’ Lanterns just get scarier.