Happy Halloween!!

So I just came in to the house after I went for a run around the condo.

This condo is a pretty big avenue with houses in both sides and farther away, a beautiful fake lake -as every condo-lake in Orlando- and a cool club house. I brought this out because, as you may guess, this is my first truly american Halloween, and I want to tell you about it!

Let's begin with the houses: each of them more creative than the previous one. Graves, balloons, witches, lights, even music and live monsters in every house entrance. People go and sit outside in beach-like chairs and look at the kids running in front of them, with their little costumes and huge bags -the more, the best, is what americans say!-.

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Kids, all so excited and a bit scared, for what I saw, go from one door to the other asking for candies and sometimes even running away from some creepy, funny and supposedly scary adult that came out of nowhere to scare them.

It is truly like a party. Everybody goes and take a walk to look at the kids, at the costumes, at the houses... it is like a national holiday; I must say I am bit amazed, specially with this experience in the condo, because I know kids wear costumes to go to school, and young people wear them for a halloween party... but this communitarian experience is something I've never seen before, at least in this country. I think this is what is really about: getting people closer, help them to open themselves. Remember I told you that in these american cities people live their lifes so separately from others, everybody just doing their thing? Well, Halloween brings them together in a way I don't think any other holiday does, since most of them are to share with family and close friends. But this... this makes unknown people talk to each other, make jokes, make costume compliments and so.

Now, that said, I must admit that this condo costumes were not the most creative ones, I was expecting sense of humor and great costume ideas... come on, americans, you can do better!

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But real horror is what they lived in NY today, with the truck attack. I just can't understand how someone would want to hurt kids, because he had to knew that kids were going to be all around the place today, and that's why he chose to attack? To hurt them while they were having fun in the holiday they waited all year for? I really don't get it... and I want to know if it was another "real american", because if it was, Trump doesn't get to blame muslim or hispanic people... it's a homeland problem, since Las Vegas and so...

Anyway, here everything was safe, thank God, and it looked like a very festive and funny afternoon.

Reporting from Orlando... I leave you!

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