HALLOWEEN
AT ALTA AXARQUIA SECONDARY SCHOOL
On
Thursday 30th October Halloween came once again to our school. That day
the students and teachers who came through the main door into the entrance hall
found themselves in a gloomy and horror atmosphere that really gave some of them
the chills. First, they were welcomed by the school witch who didn’t fail to
show up this year. This wicked witch of ours has been naughty lately. Word on
the street is that she is the one to be blamed for casting the evil eye on those
who fell down going down the stairs that lead onto the playground. So you’d
better be nice to her so that you won’t become one of her victims and have no
mishaps in your near future.
Then darkness
pervaded the place. The walls had turned black and cobwebs hung everywhere.
Pictures of haunted houses, bats, skulls, grinning black cats, ghosts, spiders,
zombies, werewolves, and other frightening creatures covered the walls. In
addition there was a dim light coming from the inside of hollow pumpkins on
which sneering faces had been carved. Those were the jack-o’-lanterns who gave
a menacing stare to the passers-by.
All of
this creepy scene was made possible by the collaboration of our students who
took part in the different contests organized by the English Department. As every
year, the Department held three contests related to Halloween: the horror
picture contest, the horror story contest and the jack-o’-lanterns contest. All
the works presented were exhibited in the entrance hall for everyone to see and
to be frightened of. On this occasion our students have proved again they can
be really creative as some of their works really could scare you out of wits. Thus
it has been a hard job for the members of the jury to choose the winners of the
different contests.
Let us
begin with the horror picture contest. Here Estela García of 1st Year of Bachillerato came in first
with a drawing of the number pi symbol surrounded by screaming ghosts. This
girl showed us that Maths can be really scary as well as difficult. Ana Belén Leal of 3rd Year
of ESO came in second with a pencil drawing of a scared little girl surrounded
by bats, skeletons and zombies. Then Elena
Ruiz of 1st Year of Bachillerato came in third with an original
picture of a haunted house that looked like flying boat. Finally, an honourable
mention was awarded to Marina Rodríguez
of 4th Year of ESO for her picture in which she proved she really
knows how to use the colours.
Now
let us continue with the jack-o’-lantern contest. Here Paula Ponce, Rocío González
and Ana Belén Leal of 3rd
Year of ESO came in first with a pumpkin painted in black and decorated with
silver sequins. This pumpkin might be the most stylish one that we haver even
seen. José María Díaz of 2nd
Year of ESO came in second with a pumpkin that had become the Count Dracula
himself and was ready to bite with his huge fangs. María Jesús Ortega of 3rd Year of ESO came in third with
a pumpkin that had become an evil clown. We would also like to mention other
pumpkins that were really original and elaborate and, oh boy, they could give
you the creeps: one of them was the hungry pumpkin that was devouring a puppet,
it gave the gory touch that one. Another one was the typical Spanish pumpkin
that resembled a sevillanas dancer
with all her combs, big earrings and make-up.
Let us
finish with the horror story contest. Here María
Mateos of 2nd Year of Bachillerato came in first. Then Ana Ester de Miguel of 1st
Year of ESO came in second proving that even the youngest students can write
good stories. Finally Raquel Morales and
Nuria López 2nd Year of
ESO came in third with a story written on a book shaped as a jack-o-lantern.
That
was it. We would like to thank and congralute all the participants in the
different contests as they present better works every year. We hope you enjoyed
the works and had a happy halloween and we bet you were a bit scared by some of
them. See you in a year and keep away from evil spirits and wicked witches.
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