I have four memories of Halloween. When I was in Year One, Halloween was on a Friday, so our teacher got us to come to school dressed up. I just wore a mask, and I remember my teacher saying I looked frightening. Then, I remember, some older kids came in trick or treating, and the teacher gave one kid a green jelly-bean and she said to the other, "And purple for a person." Then, in the afternoon, we had apple bobbing and sticky buns on bits of string.

Two years later, my class had a Halloween Party, and I didn't want to go, so I didn't, and I remember a kid in my class asked me if I was going and when I replied, "No," whined, "Oh, poo!" because he wanted to scare me with his costume, but he couldn't.

A third memory I have was when we had a mock scare thing, in Year Four, where we had to climb blindfolded through a window (I was tall for my age, and didn't want to do it, but the teacher made me) and stick our hand into tomato sauce as pretend blood.

And the following year, my school had a party on a Saturday night, where my brother dressed as Dracula, and I was dragged along. They had hamburgers, and I remember, I was on a ride with some kids in my class, and I got off to find my mother standing off to the side waiting for me. My brother was standing there eating a bun with butter on it, while I had a hamburger with meat and salad. I remember a kid in my brother's class said, as he bit into his burger, "I hate beetroot!"