Back home in Canada, I am very passionate about decorating my home with Halloween decroations inside and out. 

Inside of my house I like to hang faux spider webs, ghosts and ghouls from the ceiling, as well as placing plastic pumpkins all around my home.

On the outside of my home I like to make things a little more spooky. On the night of Halloween I will set out carved pumpkins, position my life-like scarecrow on the porch, hang some skeletons from the base of the roof, and put on some eerie music.

Now this year, because I have moved to Japan for the next 6 months, I will not have the opportunity to decorated the place I am staying at, which makes my heart sink a little.

This column has made me very happy as I am able to still mentally put up my Halloween decorations for this year. 

FAUX (偽物): made in imitation; artificial.

GHOULS (おばけ): an evil spirit or phantom, especially one supposed to rob graves and feed on dead bodies.




LIFE-LIKE (本当に見える): Very similar to a person or thing being represented. 





EERIE (怖い):  Strange and frightening.