Colleen
and I, somewhat weary from our long trek, walked to Tyler’s house, which
thankfully wasn’t too far from the rank, as he lives in town. We met Tyler and
his German girlfriend Ann at his house with a “trick or treat!”, and he soon broke
out the enormous assortment of candy that he had acquired for the occasion. He admitted that he got some weird stares from the clerks at Pep (a clothing store that has oddly has a good selection of candy at the registers) because he was buying so much candy. Ann
had brought two pumpkins all the way from where she lives in Maseru, and we
quickly got to work carving them. With the pumpkin innards, we also made some
awesome pumpkin pies. Somewhere along the line, Ann was talking about the
less-than-comfortable aspects of living in Lesotho, like the occasional
scorpion. Once, she found a scorpion in her house and she took care of it by
whacking it with a pizza box and flushing it down the toilet. You know you’re
living in a developing country when your mind doesn’t go to “Ew, a scorpion!”
but “Woah, pizza and toilets!”
Tyler hard at work carving the pumpkin
Taxi driver ntate pumpkin and old ntate pumpkin
'Me pumpkin
The
next day, our dear Mohale’s Hoek friend Emily showed up to the party. After
making faux lasagna and getting more hopped up on candy, we decided to have a “séance”
in Tyler’s yard, among the glowing faces of our carved pumpkins. It was less of
a séance and more of us being super hyper from the candy and dancing/rapping/setting
small piles of trash on fire, asking the pumpkins to help us call upon the
ancestors, whoever they were. This is what happens when indoor kids get turned
loose outside, I guess.
An indoor kid's halloween costume: a stegosaurus
The
rest of the Halloween shenanigans involved getting some great braai at a place
called Dallaz (I’d like to think they were repping my home city, but it was
probably just a play on the word Dollars), watching/sleeping through the old
Hocus Pocus movie, playing a sandwich-themed card game at the pond, and playing
a semi-complex board game we lovingly refer to as the “nerd game.” Halloween
success.
Chesa nama = hot meat
Braai day
The pond
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