Halloween, in Which Your Heroine Is Emo

The day of Halloween, we had a personal tour with our art history teacher at an old castle onthe outskirts of Salzburg. Built inthe 16th century as a hunting lodge of sorts, it is famous for its trick fountains and mechanical devices run by the water. Check out the Flickr pictures here to read all about it. I described the whole trip, including our awesomely evil professor spraying us all with water and getting us into secret areas. Awesome tour, awesome castle.

After all this, we had to attend a Halloween party at my program director's house. Amber and I went as emo kids. Because even though they are so ~*~uNiQuE~*~ they are always seen in groups. Wearing the same thing. For those who don't know what 'emo' is, just type it into google. Or look at pretty much any MySpace page. Basically, it's young(ish) kids who like to think they are very deep and misunderstood. They write bad poetry and listen to music like Fallout Boy and My Chemical Romance. They wear too much eyeliner and eyeshadow. Black nail polish and straight hair that must cover at least one eye completely. Spend five minutes in any shopping mall and you'll see emo kids everywhere. It's like a disease.

Even though it was meant to be funny and poking fun at the emo kids, I got many compliments along the lines of "OMG YOU LOOK SO HOT AS AN EMO GIRL AND OMG HOW DO YOU DO THE EMO LINGO SO WELL?" Let's just say I was emo before emo was hot. Yeah, back when I was 12 or so. All the rest of you are posers. Emo kid hotness:



Along the way to the party, we found the location of Salzburg's old witch tower! I'd read about it and knew it existed but never found it. The tower was used back in the 16th and 17th centuries to hold women accused of witchcraft before they were burned at the stake. Nice. Sadly, the building was destroyed during WW2, and there's a used bookstore on the spot. However, they still have the old iron sign that used to hang above the tower. There's also a picture of a woman burning in a fire on the side of the building. Anyway, I thought it was pretty rad that we found the building on Halloween. The iron witch:



The party was pretty fun. Most people came in costumes, and surprise! Amber and I found a fellow emo kid!

Brian, so emo that even his skin turned black:



There was also Radely as an iPod commercial. Boy, did he get some strange looks on the bus when we rode over together. But it was totally worth it, see?



There was a coloring contest. Being a good emo kid, I refused to conform to the system by coloring my pumpkin orange. Mine was black. Like the dark abyss that is my soul. There was also chili, which was amazingly good. Of course, it was free, and free food always tastes amazing.

To see who else showed up to the party, you'll have to view the rest of the pictures at Flickr (link below). Not trying to name drop or anything, but the Seedy Sheriff, Kriss Kross, Groucho Marx, and Justin Timberlake were all there.

See all of the Halloween pictures here.

Um next, Venice!