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Do you have memories of celebrating a holiday for the very first time?

If you've moved to a place where people have traditions you've never heard of before moving there, then the answer would be yes.

I remember the first time I celebrated Halloween in America.

What I do remember is learning about this holiday in my new school, going trick or treating for the very first time and realizing just how big a deal Halloween was in America.

idioms and expressions.

In episode 27 I mentioned that understanding American culture helps an English learner understand American English.

Story sprzedają większe pudełka kandydatów w tym roku.

And this year, as a mom, I'm deciding whether our little family should do a family costume, since the little one is still little and I can still be in charge.

They constantly talked about witches and witchcraft in school around this time of year.

I specifically remember having a teacher that every year would walk around reciting the line from Shakespeare's Macbeth.

gdzie trzy dziewczyny realizują spełnienie, które pisały... Double, double, toil and trouble, fire, burn and cauldron bubble.

In the last episode I mentioned the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is set...

around the same time and around the same place.

And if you ever watched the TV show Sabrina the Teenage Witch with Melissa Joan Hart, which I watched in Polska and in the States, you may remember that Sabrina's full name was Sabrina Spellman because she cast spells and her cat's name was Salem as in

Hocus Pocus, Halloween Town, The Addams Family, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, The Craft,

If you search for Halloween songs on Spotify, you'll see many playlists and all of them will definitely list these three songs.

Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr., Thriller by Michael Jackson and the most classic Halloween song of all time, Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett.

If your plan is to stay home on Halloween and maybe pass out candy to the kids in the neighborhood, you can do an activity at home with Halloween music playing in the background.

Children like making cute desserts like gummy worms in a bowl of chocolate pudding to make them look like real worms coming out of the ground.

Jest tam theme park, nie za daleko od tego, gdzie mieszkam, który ma specjalne wydarzenie na Halloween w oktoberze, gdzie możesz jeździć na rollercoasterach w nocy, żeby zdobyć ten ruch adrenalinowy.

Some people prefer to go all out to decorate their homes and host a Halloween party at home.

They could be the most original or clever.

Skeleton in the closet means a hidden secret, for example.

but we'll soon hear about the skeletons in her closet that she doesn't want us to know about.

Ghost town means empty, abandoned place.

The shopping mall looked like a ghost town after all the stores closed.

To scare the life out of someone means to frighten someone very badly.

You scared the life out of me sneaking up like that in the dark.

The crime was shocking because it was committed in cold blood, not in self-defense.

To play devil's advocate means to take the opposite side of an argument or opinion in a discussion.

During meetings, she often plays devil's advocate to make sure the team has thought about all possible problems.