Age 4-1981
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1981 – 4 years old.
I was in Kindergarden at Renfrew Elementary School and this is definately my first ever Halloween memory, let alone being my FIRST EVER MEMORY… EVER. Perhaps that is part of the reason why Samhain holds such signifigance in my life. & it was definately a good memory. At school that day, my moms dressed me up in a cheap ass plastic pig mask. The ones with the thin little elastic to hold it on, attached to the tiny pin-pricked hole on the side of the mask. And of course the plastic is a sharp cut all the way around, cutting into your skin. Under the mask I was sporting a red silk Chinese style jacket, you know with the pretty embroidery. I couldn’t understand what I was supposed to be but now, I think I remember such a character from ancient chinese lore. I must’ve looked like quite a sight; it was even worse when we had to parade through the other classes to show off our costumes. In one of the older classes a boy thought my costume was hilarious & he poked me right in the tummy to try and tickle me or make me jump! I was really young then so it freaked me out! Previously, I had no dealings with the older kids & this was my first experience!? lol
Later that night, my dad was off driving his taxi for the Yellow Cab Co. My moms took me out for the first time Trick or Treating. I half hoofed it and was half carried in her arms; we had to make it quick because she wanted to go back home to hand out candy. Very little is remembered of the actual going house to house, only that kids were outside setting off firecrackers and the smoke & noise scared me so my mom carried me through it to the front door. Handing out candy was super fun but really scary for me as I didn’t understand why people were dressed up as weird characters, hahaha. Most of the time I would just stand there gawking at the kids with the candy in my hand while my mom moved my hand upward towards their bags for me. To a young kid, all of this would’ve been really really weird. Period.