Halloween in Paris

Halloween has always been one of my favourite "holidays." In Canada it's a pretty big deal. As a child you get to dress up as scary creatures, run around with your friends and get lots of candy. In university it's undoubtedly one of the biggest events of the year, everyone goes all out with costumes, and there are crazy parties all over town. Halloween is only just catching on in Europe and has a long way to go if it wants to live up to North American standards. Luckily there are some Canadians here and Joce was visiting, so I had some people around me who were into the spirit. One of the other erasmus students had a halloween party with decorations and there were a few people dressed up, so it was a decent start to the evening. However we went to a club that was having a "halloween" party, and they wouldn't let us in! I'm not really sure what happened because I went to the bathroom at a restauarnt with some girls and came back to the line to find that most of my friends had already been kicked out. Apparently we were "too rowdy" but I have a feeling they were just not into our costumes. No one in the line was dressed up except of our group, and this was for an event advertised as a halloween party! Anyways the night ended up going very well, I was kind of glad that we didn't make it into the first place because the cover was 15 euros. We wandered down the street a bit and found a cute little bar and just danced the night away. We were a big enough group that we probalby would have entertained ourselves wherever we ended up!