I had another fun weekend, and it was a special weekend too! Diwaloween!! (Diwali + Halloween). It had such a great time with my friends! On Friday, we had a Diwali/Halloween Social Hour (Shayla will talk about this more) with lots of candy, pumpkin rolls, samosas, and Rangoli!

On Saturday, I went to Diwali Night, which was hosted by Ankur – Indian Graduate Student Association. It was a great night of performances from singing to different kinds of dancing. I was blown away to see that so many classmates were so talented! I also wanted to go the whole nine yards and wore a friend’s salwar kameez. I felt a little silly, at first, but the more I walked around, the more comfortable I felt. I was glad that I was able to be a part of an important part of my schoolmates’ culture 🙂 Oh, by the way, the food was so good; especially because they had my favorite dessert, carrot halwa!!! 😀

Finally, on Sunday night, the iSchool went to Hundred Acres Manor, an awesome haunted house in Pittsburgh. Everyone thought that I’d be the most scared, but I WASN’T!!! HA!! I actually laughed through half of it. But, I will say that it was still fun. They had a lot of really cool graphics and illusions that will really throw you off! I’m glad I got to end the weekend with some Halloween fun! It’s really one of my favorite holidays and I haven’t been to a haunted house in years! I’ve also always wanted to try a maze too, so that was definitely the icing on the cake.