Mike’s Halloween Memories

Mike: I really liked Hallowe- Halloween when I was a kid.

Mike: Um, one thing that I remember is that we always dressed up, uh, the same every year. Uh, for me, I was almost always a pirate, because it’s, uh, such an easy costume.

Mike: All I had to do was put, um, some makeup on my face for a beard and wear a bandana over my head, uh, and wear old-fashioned clothes, something brown or, um, dark-colored.

Mike: And- and then, um, I could walk around the neighborhood and ask f- uh, or- and say, “Trick or treat.”

Mike: Um, after we were finished trick-or-treating, which would usually last about two hours, um, we would come back and, uh, look over our candy.

Mike: If I was lucky, I would eat most of my candy in the next three days, um, and then, uh, my sister would usually have a lot of extra candy, so I might borrow some from her.

Mike: Well, not borrow, but take some from her.

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Vocabulary:

dressed up – put on special clothes, like a costume or very nice outfits, “The children dressed up as superheroes for the birthday party.”

easy costume – a simple outfit for a holiday or party that does not take much work to make, “A white sheet with two eye holes makes an easy costume for a ghost.”

old-fashioned clothes – clothing that looks like it is from a time long ago, “The actors wore old-fashioned clothes for the movie about the 1800s.”

look over our candy – to check or examine the sweets carefully, “We sat on the living room floor to look over our candy after trick-or-treating.”

If I was lucky – a phrase used to say that a good thing might happen by chance, “If I was lucky, my mom would let me watch one more cartoon before bed.”

extra candy – more sweets than what is needed or expected, “We had a lot of extra candy left over after the party ended.”