HOTLB: What is your favorite Halloween memory?

As the Halloween season comes to an end and trick or treating and pumpkin carving become activities of the past, students reminisce on times when their biggest worries were how much candy they were going to get compared to their siblings.

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“My favorite memory was when in elementary school, we would have a costume parade and the younger kids would walk around in their Halloween costumes and the older kids could watch. [I loved] that I got to see everyone else’s costumes,” - Lena Tsay (’28)

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“When I was younger, I would go to my church’s autumn festival, which is their version of Halloween. It was mostly just these fall themed games, but my favorite one was where we would go through a bunch of coffee beans and we’d have to look for these little pumpkin erasers, it was really competitive,” - Erin Lau (’28)

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“My nostalgic Halloween memory is picking out Halloween costumes with my family and just going to the store and picking stuff out and talking. And one year for Halloween in elementary school, I was the Cookie Monster,” - Santiago Aquino (’27)

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“Every year I join a Halloween surf competition. Basically it’s not really competitive, but it’s more who has the best costume and who’s the most stoked and having the most fun. It’s really cool because sometimes we give out a surfboard and other times it’s more Halloween-based prizes,” - Alex Briller (’29)