These aren't the best pictures, but they certainly are the best memories. When you're an expat living in a new country, you relish getting to know the locals and local traditions and customs. You also relish celebrating some of your own traditions with other expats. For Halloween in 2009, we planned a party at Mike's, one of the only Mexican restaurants in our prefecture (state). We wore costumes, and my girlfriend Callie and I went as Beyonce and her dancers from the "Single Ladies" video. And today I'd tell you I'm embarrassed looking at the photos and videos of me dancing from that night in that leotard and those tights, and boy, do I mean it, but I'm also so happy that I did that and was a little crazy and uninhibited and went all out. We drank margaritas and got funky with it during the Cha Cha Slide and spoke in Japanese phrases but mostly in English and we made the traditions of our home countries come alive in a small Mexican bar in Iwakuni, Japan.
I'm challenging all the Halloweens from this year out to beat that one. It's stiff competition.
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