Halloween in Spain

Well, definitely not as big of a deal in the US, but there were some great costumes. I went out with a group of friends from my CIDE program around 12, since nothing gets started here until 1 or after, and we walked (like we do everywhere) down the river and past the Gugenhiem to a discoteca. Every thursday, or in this case wednesday night because thursday was all saints day here where people go to cemetaries to clean the tomb stones of loved ones, there is an Erasmus party. Erasmus is an international european group of students that can study abroad for a semester or a year anywhere they want basically. So it is really awesome because there are British, French, German, Italian and everyone all together communicating in spanish. So their program holds parties for them every week and anyone can go. My friend John from southern california dressed up as a beach bum with a sun hat and a flower lay and this other guy tom had a painted black and white face like a skeleton; it was very embarrassing walking down the street with them and having everyone stare! We got there and towards the back, where there was the most room, we squeezed are way through saying perdoname and con permiso the whole way. Some wierd spanairds where really dressed up as ugly zombies and it was a little over the top until we realized they were professional dancers. After a little bit of staring, they grabbed me and shoved me into this coffin on the wall and started posing next to me for the camera...I was definitely embarrassed! I wonder where that picture went..but then they did it to everyone else. There was also a man and a woman dressed up as devils with very little clothing on dacing on a higher and small stage the whole night, you can imaging how sweaty everyone was by that point! Anyways, it was a good night, and I would even say the same as many others at the discoteca but with costumes!