halloween, what's that?

So obviously Sunday was Halloween.  You may be interested to find out that almost nobody does Halloween in Ukraine.  There's no trick-or-treating, dressing up, or parties (well there might be parties, but they have nothing to do with Halloween).  Anyway, that meant that this past weekend was just like any other weekend during the year.  I ,however, made a night of it by myself watching some movies and rotting my teeth.  It was a good time made even better by the fact that I have no classes on Monday's. Funny story.  I had just started to watch the first movie, Edward Scissorhands, when I realized that I had no candy!  So I put on my coat and started walking to the corner store.  On my way I passed a little convenience store with three teenagers standing outside of it with painted faces.  They were laughing and peering into the store, when suddenly one of them ran into the store.  I turned to see what he was doing and laughed as I saw him point a gun at the cashier.  Ukraine must really be messing with my head, because I was not shocked or worried by this at all.  I saw the cashier laugh and the kid put the fake gun down.  Think about what would have happened in America if a kid had done this.  It would not have been funny, and the kid would probably would have gotten the cops called on him. 
Local elections were also held on Sunday in Ukraine, so for the past two or three weeks political parties have had tents up all over the city passing out flyers.  It was an eye opening experience when I saw the first tent...

That's right, the communist party!  On a good not, it is encouraging that the communist party is still aloud to exist in Ukraine.  What I mean is that it's good that you have the freedom to express your political ideology, even if no one is listening.  It does look like one guy is listening though...
Yesterday when I woke my internet wasn't working.  I thought it was something wrong with my computer, but after checking some things I decided that it was the internet itself.  I wasn't sure when I needed to pay for my internet again, but the first of November made sense, so I was left to wait for the guy to come around and collect the money.  He did around 6 pm and by 10 pm the internet was back on in the building.  It's a good way to make people pay in my opinion.