“My favorite part of Halloween is the “take one” candy bowls. My sister and I usually take a handful and run away after because free candy is the best candy.”
Jada Portilllo
“The decorations everywhere I go! Seeing all of the detailed pumpkins, life sized skeletons, fake spider webs, etc. When I go for a walk around my neighborhood, I love seeing the creativity around all the neighborhoods and how much people still care to decorate!”
Marisela Quintua
Halloween isn’t my absolute favorite part of the year but it is definitely up there. There are so many reasons why Halloween is awesome I can’t even begin to name them all. Everything from scary movies, candy, happy haunts, to the time of year I love. Probably what I love most though is the spooky vibe we get every year in the Halloween season. The unsettling feeling you get when you look down a dark hallway or thinking there is someone following you but it’s just the fallen leaves blowing in the October breeze. Halloween to me almost makes us more comfortable with the things that frighten us which I think is healthy because people need to be more fearless in general, but Halloween is also the only acceptable time to be fearful so it’s great.
Lincoln Sievers
“Halloween is fun because you get to have free candy and you get to meet people as well. Moreover, Halloween is also a holiday where we get to be out with friends and retrieve candy from people. So, it’s a fun holiday to enjoy.”
Saadiq Afzal
“To me Halloween is the best time of the year because it is in fall, which is the perfect season to me. I also like that we can dress up as whatever we want (well not entirely) but still it’s really fun. Since I’m older, I can’t say because of the candy, however, I do enjoy giving away candy and see how others are dressed up!”
Bryan Ramos
“I think ever since I decided at the ripe old age of 11 or 12 that going trick or treating was too childish for me, I’ve spent most Halloweens watching scary movies. The issue with that is that I really hate jump scares, so when I do watch a horror movie, if something jumps out, I immediately pause it and watch something else.”
Vanessa Gomez
“I enjoy Halloween as an adult because I’m making memories with my nieces and nephews. I’ve been going trick-a-treating with them since 2007. With Halloween it’s fun seeing all the kids dressed up with normal to off the wall type of costumes. As the kids get older they can always have the memories that we had hung out on Halloween, and it’s also a tradition that we can look back on for years. I also tell the kids my sugar is dropping so they will give me some of their candy as we’re walking house to house.”
Christina Goodman
“Scary movies, haunted houses and lots and lots of candy are my fondest memories of Halloween. I remember my mother taking me trick or treating and that was fun because we could dress up as whatever we wanted to be on that day. One of the scariest movies of all time has to be “Poltergeist,” which is an all time favorite of mine, especially on Halloween. The haunted houses were definitely scary with an all famous trip to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. The candy is basically free when you can get it from a relative or neighbor. So in all Halloween is a fun yet scary adventurous time of year for me.”
Lakeisha Johnson