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The Bridge hosted a pumpkin carving contest, which I was totally for. The winner would get a 200 rmb gift certificate that would hold me over for month, and as I’ve mentioned before, all American culture makes me happy at this point. Many of the people in my class didn’t get very excited, unfortunately, which I merit to their having just recently arrived to China. Luckily, Thomas agreed to join the team. I bought the biggest pumpkin they had for around 25rmb, and we used my laptop to pick out a winning design.
The Death Star Pumpkin ended up taking us and then me all night to finish as I let Thomas go around midnight, but the results were awesome. We ended up not winning, which I think was a sham and perhaps partly to do with poor placement. I set the Death Star up on a shelf right in front of the entrance steps, so I figured people would be force to see it, but maybe they didn’t because it was separated from the rest of the “pumpkins.”
What turned out to work really well on carving out the canyons was the back end of a metal spoon or knife after having scored the edges with a sharper knife.
The following is my Halloween costume that was narrowed down from a pretty small list. Unfortunately, you can’t see my pink skirt over my jeans. The party was held at Cliff and Phoenix’s awesome apartment.
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Tags: american culture, contest, death star, halloween, harry, pumpkin carving, santa, the bridge, thomas, toothfairy