Halloween
By Pili Chazaro
I would like to talk (or to write) about my nice and
kind English teacher She has helped me very much to
improve my English language because I don't have friends
or persons who speak English. Of course, my daughters'
teachers speak English, but I only talk five minutes or
less with them, while Sally can go with me in the park,
or in my car, or in her house, or in mine. She can talk
(or chat) with me, and it's very interesting because we
talk about different topics. I can learn idioms, and my
vocabulary is bigger now. But not only that -- there were
many words that I didn't know because they look the same,
like "quite," "quit," and "quiet," and she explained them
to me. (My pronunciation is much better now.)
I am going to tell you about my daughter and her
family who came from Mexico to visit us. They wanted to
be here for Halloween, and they were. We were ready that
night. All the children were wearing their costumes, and
we went out to ask for "Trick or Treat." It was really
fun. My daughters, who are seven and eight years old, and
my two year-old granddaughter were very, very happy and
excited. Each door where they rang the bell, they got a
candy, or a chocolate -- and they filled all their
pumpkins. This tradition doesn't exist in Mexico, and all
of us enjoyed asking for the candies and watching other
people with their funny costumes. Another thing that we
liked was that almost all the houses were decorated with
pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and other things.
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