Holy Evening AKA Halloween
For those of you that have never wondered where Halloween originated or why we celebrate it, you're not alone. I really hadn't contemplated it until today. I was teaching an ESL class and a student asked, "Is today a holiday?" When I said it was Halloween the student, from Central Africa, had never heard of it. Then I realized how little I knew about the origins of Halloween. It's a holiday that my family always celebrated and I have at least 10 costumes that my mom made for