Halloween

Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31st mostly by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets.

Halloween spread across Europe over 2, 000 years ago. It was a cultural, religious and Celtic tradition celebrating the end of the harvest season. Although it was not called Halloween at first. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Druid traditions. Then later in the 7 century because of the Catholic Church's influence, it began to be celebrated as “All Saints Day” to honour all the Saints who did not have a special day of their own. So the term Halloween is from 'HALLOWMAS'. ‘Hallow’ means holy or Saint; it is the eve of the feast of ‘All Hallows’ Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve) or "All Saints' Day". Over time the name has been shortened to Halloween. In the 19th century it was brought to North America by Irish immigrants.

In my country we don’t have such a holiday. I can only compare it to New year, because that's then all children dress-up.

About food

I'm not conservative when it comes to food, I like trying new cuisines and dishes from all over the world. I like everything: spicy, not spicy, salty, sweet and so on.
I find Australian food pretty boring, but what is good in Australia that you can find different kind of food here. And also I have to say that lamb and pies are very delicious in Australia!!!

Two-week break

It was great to have two-week holiday! I enjoyed not having to get up early each day!
The first week when the weather was good my daughter and me went to parks with our friends and enjoyed playing outside, having BBQ and just enjoyed the sun and warmth. But last week it was cold again, I didn't like it but still we went to a children's festival, to a theatre for Gruffalo kids play, to a swimming pool and caught up with a lot of our friends.
My daughter and me had very active holiday, so I didn't have much time to clean my house or do homework for my studying!!! Shame on me :))