One of the main reasons that I wanted
to write my last blog was to talk about Halloween here and then I promptly
forgot to write at all about it! Anyway, here is a small recount of our holiday
shenanigans.
Now, Halloween isn’t really a thing in India. In fact, I can hardly think of something that alerted me to Halloween’s coming besides the pictures I saw on Facebook of my friends at various parties. The one reminder that we had here in India was Dolly-ji incessantly mentioning the Bollywood dances we would have to perform on Halloween for her birthday present (her birthday was on the 25th). Thus said, most of our costumes were pretty haphazard for the party, but we all still had a ton of fun.
The “pre-party” was a discussion on faith, diversity, and unity in both the United States and India which lasted for a couple of hours. Afterwards, real party preparations began. Stephen ran home to grab his costume and I went to my house to grab a charger for the speakers. When I came back, the rest of the group had created a chart for guessing each other’s personality types (using Myers Briggs Personality Types) to play a game where whoever guesses the most number of personalities correctly would get extra chocolate at the party. Then, Stephen walks in wearing the exact same clothes that he had been wearing previously and all of us were like, “Wait, Stephen, we all thought you were changing into your costume?” Stephen then ripped off his shirt and pants to transform into Shyam: Guardian of the Night and resident superhero of India 6.0. The rest of our costumes were as follows:
Evelyn: American tourist
Ben P: Foreign tourist on a spiritual journey
Chase: Lord Shiva himself
Jenny: Maggi minute noodles
Ben T: Salmaan Khan
Alex: Tourist with dreadlocks
Caleb: A girl (which then became a Hijra)
After writing down our predictions for each other’s personalities, we all took the test and then went around announcing what everyone was. Stephen came out on top for the guessing, getting 5 of the 9 people correct (I tied for last with Dolly-ji, only guessing one person correctly). Our personality types are as follows:
Alex: ENTP
Stephen: INFP
Ben P: ENTP
Ben T: INFP
Jenny: ISFP
Chase: ENFP
Evelyn: ESTJ
Caleb-ji: INFP
Dolly-ji: ESFP
Interestingly enough, I am opposite of the majority of people in my group for 2 of the letters and the only person with “judging” rather than “perceiving” for the last letter.
After the personality tests, we got onto Pottermore and found out our Hogwarts houses if we hadn’t already done so. Unfortunately, this activity was cut short due to the arrival of Dolly-ji’s two kids and Hemant-ji, as well as Dominoes pizza, and more snacks. At this point it was getting kind of late and we wanted to end our party with a dance party. All of us were supposed to have prepared a dance, but really only Jenny and the two Bens did. I am sure those videos will make it up to the internet soon, but I’ll just say that the two Bens had a KILLER performance and no one even came close to their dancing skillz. Even though it didn’t really feel like Halloween, the party was definitely a huge highlight of last week.
Now, Halloween isn’t really a thing in India. In fact, I can hardly think of something that alerted me to Halloween’s coming besides the pictures I saw on Facebook of my friends at various parties. The one reminder that we had here in India was Dolly-ji incessantly mentioning the Bollywood dances we would have to perform on Halloween for her birthday present (her birthday was on the 25th). Thus said, most of our costumes were pretty haphazard for the party, but we all still had a ton of fun.
The “pre-party” was a discussion on faith, diversity, and unity in both the United States and India which lasted for a couple of hours. Afterwards, real party preparations began. Stephen ran home to grab his costume and I went to my house to grab a charger for the speakers. When I came back, the rest of the group had created a chart for guessing each other’s personality types (using Myers Briggs Personality Types) to play a game where whoever guesses the most number of personalities correctly would get extra chocolate at the party. Then, Stephen walks in wearing the exact same clothes that he had been wearing previously and all of us were like, “Wait, Stephen, we all thought you were changing into your costume?” Stephen then ripped off his shirt and pants to transform into Shyam: Guardian of the Night and resident superhero of India 6.0. The rest of our costumes were as follows:
Evelyn: American tourist
Ben P: Foreign tourist on a spiritual journey
Chase: Lord Shiva himself
Jenny: Maggi minute noodles
Ben T: Salmaan Khan
Alex: Tourist with dreadlocks
Caleb: A girl (which then became a Hijra)
After writing down our predictions for each other’s personalities, we all took the test and then went around announcing what everyone was. Stephen came out on top for the guessing, getting 5 of the 9 people correct (I tied for last with Dolly-ji, only guessing one person correctly). Our personality types are as follows:
Alex: ENTP
Stephen: INFP
Ben P: ENTP
Ben T: INFP
Jenny: ISFP
Chase: ENFP
Evelyn: ESTJ
Caleb-ji: INFP
Dolly-ji: ESFP
Interestingly enough, I am opposite of the majority of people in my group for 2 of the letters and the only person with “judging” rather than “perceiving” for the last letter.
After the personality tests, we got onto Pottermore and found out our Hogwarts houses if we hadn’t already done so. Unfortunately, this activity was cut short due to the arrival of Dolly-ji’s two kids and Hemant-ji, as well as Dominoes pizza, and more snacks. At this point it was getting kind of late and we wanted to end our party with a dance party. All of us were supposed to have prepared a dance, but really only Jenny and the two Bens did. I am sure those videos will make it up to the internet soon, but I’ll just say that the two Bens had a KILLER performance and no one even came close to their dancing skillz. Even though it didn’t really feel like Halloween, the party was definitely a huge highlight of last week.
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