{"id":355,"date":"2012-10-23T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2012\/10\/23\/pumpkin-carving-and-halloween-cluster-meeting\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:45:38","slug":"pumpkin-carving-and-halloween-cluster-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2012\/10\/23\/pumpkin-carving-and-halloween-cluster-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Carving and Halloween Cluster Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, what a nice day we had on Sunday\u00a0 to be outside for pumpkin carving!\u00a0 As you can see above, my au pairs were very creative in carving patterns into their pumpkins.\u00a0\u00a0 While they carved, they happily chatted about their lives and seemed to enjoy each other&#8217;s company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most au pairs know about Halloween but do not celebrate it in their countries.\u00a0\u00a0 They are usually very excited to experience this American holiday and at Au Pair in America we promote this kind of cultural exchange. \u00a0\u00a0 On Sunday they got the Halloween treatment which included a noise-sensitive howling ghost, bats, spiders, snakes, cockroaches as well as food offerings that might creep the faint at heart out:\u00a0 a witches brew that contained a bloody hand, bloody (hot dog) fingers, crawling cracker\/pretzel stick critters, chicken eyeballs, bat wings, as well as Halloween cut out cookies and a creepy critter cake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"221\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We said good-bye to Adisah and Emma who are leaving us in November.\u00a0\u00a0 They received their education certificate, a small good-bye gift and an acknowledgement for their achievements.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They shared their experience with and gave advice to the other au pairs.\u00a0 We welcomed Juliette, Alice, and Natalie whose first meeting this was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/PumpkinCarving021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For more photos of our meeting please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/s975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/Pumpkin%20Carving%202012\/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ20\">Pumpkin Carving<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, what a nice day we had on Sunday\u00a0 to be outside for pumpkin carving!\u00a0 As you can see above, my au pairs were very creative in carving patterns into their pumpkins.\u00a0\u00a0 While they carved, they happily chatted about their lives and seemed to enjoy each other&#8217;s company. 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