Halloween has been imported to Kosovo, except the kids don't really get it. Instead of trick or treating and expecting candy, they come asking for raw eggs. Then they go back out to the streets, which are totally mobbed with kids from 5 - 15, and chuck them at each other. The plaza in front of my apartment building was slimy with egg last night. This group of girls went to Hazel's house, and asked her for eggs. Hazel was a little puzzled by this, since she hadn't been outside yet. She went back inside and got 3 egss, one for each kid. After the first two, the third girl said, "No thanks, I've already got one." and patted her jeans pocket, and promptly squashed the egg. "OH NOOOOO!!" Really funny.
We had our own Halloween festivities at Jessica's house on Saturday night. Evidently the gay population here doesn't really have any place to go and be open about it, so Jess gave them an outlet. The theme was crossdressing, and man, there were some beautiful women(?) at this party. And some not so beautiful - a little scary at best. The whole thing was an absolute blast though. We tossed everyone out at about midnight and went to a couple of clubs from there... in costume, which raised some eyebrows as most of the older kids don't really "do" Halloween. I obviously picked the wrong costume.. I went as a black-eyed pea (that's my standard no-money, no-effort costume). You put a big p on your shirt and black out one eye.... Apparently the domestic violence problem here is a big one, and people didn't get the pun, as they don't know what black eyed peas are, so I just looked like a battered woman with the scarlet letter on her shirt. Oh well. One of the guys with us kept teasing me, telling me I should have listened and that I was lucky the other eye wasn't black. Ha Ha. I'll post pictures soon, hopefully this afternoon.
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