Reflecting this atmosphere of the mysterious and the ghastly common to Halloween festivals around the world, on October 31st 2012, The Asian International School held its own Halloween festival at all of its high school campuses. This traditional festival is held every year with many exciting activities to help the students understand more about different cultures and traditions around the world, develop the students’ creativity and strengthen their collective solidarity.

Impressive Halloween pumpkins decorated by The Asian International School’s students

By the beginning of October, the Halloween atmosphere had pervaded all campuses of The Asian International School. The students took advantage of all their free time to collect and think about the ideas for the contests held during the festival, especially the Halloween-themed painting contest. With skillful hands, they created unique paintings showing their eagerness for the festival, from simple pencil drawings of pumpkins to elaborate graveyard scenes to colorful paintings of the macabre and delightful world of Halloween. All works were exhibited in the schoolyard for all to enjoy.

Halloween paintings

Pumpkin decoration was one of the activities that attracted many students. Huge and yellow pumpkins suddenly became lanterns, carved with funny smiles and scary demon faces... All of these were used to decorate the various courtyards, making the school grounds festive and colorful before the celebration itself.

Pumpkin decorations

The atmosphere of the Halloween festival was made more interesting and scary with the haunted house and graveyard, both created by the students, full of monsters, ghosts, witches, and bats haunted with horrible sound effects and bitter cries. The end result succeeded, making the students both excited and a bit scared. The costumes were impressive and realistic.

The students impersonated ghosts in the haunted house and graveyard.

In the Halloween festival of this year, the students dressed up as their favorite characters. The majority of them chose horrible costumes and wore terrifying makeup. For example, some students disguised themselves with pale, bloody faces. Others impersonated ferocious wolves. There were also students bearing devil masks, and others the black robes and scythes of Death. Some students preferred to be princesses in disguise. It was interesting that their characters were different from each other. Each character left its own unique impression.

Students on the Halloween Day

Not only did the students enjoy the Halloween makeup, but the teachers also joined in the fun. Mr. Eric Brian disguised himself as a dead body with red hair; Mr. David Munden became a cute pirate; Ms. Precila impersonated a witch; Mr. Teddy and Ms. Abejo appeared as mysterious characters with black shirts.

Mysterious Mr. Teddy and Ms. Abejo

“Pirate” David Munden and “Witch” Precila

The festival’s atmosphere became more exciting and lively with the Halloween costume performance. This contest had many criteria by which students were judged, including clothes, performing style and creation. Every class was well-prepared and gave excellent, impressive performances. In their varied costumes, including Death, vampires, ghosts, and princesses, the students were confident and up to the challenge. Some students even combined Gangnam style dancing with their costume performance. There were also humorous and highly educational pantomimes. All of these performances were innovative, fascinating, and creative, and the audience responded with excitement and applause.

Special costumes of students

In addition, there were fun games for the students to play and work as a team, such as apple eating, lemon passing, mummification, yoghurt eating and Halloween face makeup games.

The students became mummies in disguise

Lemon passing game

Apple eating game

The festival was tremendous fun for all students and staff, full of laughter, smile, and applause. With our wide variety of extra-curricular activities held regularly during the school year, it is the wish of The Asian International School for our students to learn to be comfortable and have fun in the course of their education. Through these activities, the school develops the potential capacities of each student, helping them gain imagination, self-discipline, creativity, dynamism and the confidence to express themselves. This is one of the goals of The Asian International School in providing the best quality education and training for its beloved students.

Students’ feelings after participating the Halloween festival:

Dao Nguyen Thien Trang, a student of class 6/3

"The festival was really fun with many exciting games and lively performances. Almost all of us impersonated impressive ghosts, and witches. I really love Halloween and hope that there will be more festivals like this."

Nguyen Nghiem Minh Anh, a student of class 9/1

"This Halloween festival gave me and my friends a very fun and rewarding playing field. Students and teachers impersonated impressive characters. Decoration of the graveyard was truly horrible. I also enjoyed paintings of the festival authored by the students. There were many very nice paintings. Thanks to the school for organizing such a fun Halloween."

Bun Quoc Hoang, a student of class 6/4

"I liked the Halloween makeup most. The students disguised themselves as different characters that looked scary and ghostly. In addition, my friends and I joined the amusing games. I think that the Halloween festival at our school was great."

Trinh Trong Truong An, a student of class 6/4

"This year the Halloween was really fun. I saw a lot of entertainment and fashion performances. Friends disguised themselves as scary and mysterious characters, such as ghosts, witches, and monsters ... In particular, they carved pumpkins that looked very cute and creative."

Dang Thi Thuy Anh, a student of class 8/4

"This year the Halloween was really fun. The students and teachers disguised themselves as impressive witches, wolves and mummies. In addition, the festival also had many useful and interesting games. I really liked the fashion show and Gangnam style dancing performance of class 6/2. This was a useful and creative playground. Thank The Asian International School for organizing this lively and exciting Halloween festival."

Nguyen Thi Thao Uyen, a student of class 8/2

"The Halloween was fun and exciting. I visited the haunted house, watched friends dancing Gangnam style, watched plays, and participated in pumpkin carving and painting contests. Many students disguised themselves as scary characters and went everywhere to scare the others. The atmosphere was really lively. This was a chance for me to enjoy myself and develop my creativity. "

Phung Le Dieu Lien, a student of class 8/2

"The performance I liked most was the fashion show. Everyone had their own styles. There were students becoming ghosts, scary monsters or angels in disguise. With unique ideas, they made the festival more attractive and lively. I hope the school will hold more great festivals like this."