Ahhh Halloween...that wonderful time of year when pumpkins get gutted, candy gets poisoned, and girls get pneumonia from attending NYC parties virtually clothing-less (not that I'm complaining). Halloween is a slightly different experience in Israel because, well, it doesn't exist here. The big "dress-up" holiday is Purim in the spring when everyone goes hogwild. But that didn't stop my friend Drew from hosting a massive Halloween party in the dorms.
I don't even know want to know what Drew and his roommates
had to do to clean their place up in the morning.
I faced an uphill battle in deciding what to dress up as. I was limited in terms of time and access to satisfactory costume material. Plus, I had to live up to an extensive list of recent costumes that were both cheap and put together at the very last possible second:
Vampire With Bad Teeth (2002), "All That and A Bag of Chips" (2003), my Grandpa (2004), and Bono (2005). With a reputation to uphold, I managed to pull another rabbit out of my hat: I went as Toby the Hebrew University Laundry Guy.
Quick story on Toby: He's a funny/shady/sweet/weird/overweight/balding/single Israeli who owns his own laundromat near our dorm. Everyone sends him their laundry and everyone is pretty certain that, in the process, he also sniffs our undergarments. I'm telling you, he's not all there. But whatever, he's harmless. For now.
Anyways, I thought it would be fun to go as Toby and speak with an Israeli accent all night. Good times. My costume could only be described as "understated elegance:" a pillow tucked under my shirt with one of his laundromat fliers stapled to it. I think I won for creativity. Here are the pics:
My friend Drew, (Toby calls him "Droh") who
dressed up as a 70s tennis player, and his girlfriend
Emily who dressed up as Drew. The sad part is
the only thing they did for costumes was exchange clothes.
Cute
Three of my four roommates, left to right: Avi (dressed as
something strange), me, Natanel (as an Army dude),
and Ilan (as some kind of awkward French gigolo).
Desperation created some very interesting costumes
Aside for the occasional Israeli who walked past the party wondering what in the blue hell was going on, Halloween 2K6 was a raging success. No candy-induced stomach aches. No arrests. And no deaths. That sounds like a party to me.
-E
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