Elementary School Halloween

Although it's a little belated, I wanted to share a little bit of my magical Halloween in an elementary school with everyone. I spend three days dressing up like a witch and playing Halloween games and dancing to Camille Saint-Saens Danse Macabre. The kids love it, and we have a lot of fun. Last year I put up a witch and a huge ghost over my piano and bats flying from the ceiling. This year I did all of that, and added tombstones. They were all dead composers, and the students loved the fact that I had a tombstone as well.
For the Halloween parade around the school I dressed up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. After being a witch for three days straight, it was time for a change, and my students love trying to guess what I am going to be. Besides, I already had the dress from Camille's wedding. My mom made the adorable Toto, and it completed my costume.



Antonio Vivaldi, Duke Ellington, Woody Guthrie


My Dorothy costume. (Obviously I had to be someone else because Miss Ward was dead already.)


Peter Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann

New York

I took a trip with two of my roommates to New York over fall break. It was a birthday present to all of us from ourselves since it was all of our birthdays in October. However, my birthday actually happened while we were in New York. My reason for going was to go look at Teacher's College at Columbia, and I spent half a day there, but all three of us really spent most of our time playing in the city. It was an amazing birthday.


On Times Square after going to "In the Heights"



We were absolutely freezing when we went to Liberty Island and Ellis Island. It was still worth it though to brave the cold.






Finding our way using the subway map!









My birthday dinner with Heather, Nina, and Carli!





On the Brooklyn Bridge looking towards Manhattan.