October is in the Northern Hemisphere often means the days are colored with falling leaves, soft weather, and growing expectation for the holiday season. October, the 10th month of the year, shares a root with octopus and octothorpe—the Latin octo-, meaning “eight.”, because of its being 8th coming from ancient times.
October means Halloween for many children, thus they usually look forward it. On the other side, beer-lovers may also be excited for the beginning of the month, which is the time of Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Because the popularity rose gradually for this traditional festival around the world, October brings an opportunity to visit Germany and breathe the festival air held since 1810.
Pumpkin
Pumpkin everything and everywhere. Pumpkin decorations, carving pumpkins, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin scented candles, you name it. I love everything pumpkins. I love carving them and pulling out the ooey-gooey insides. I love having my room smell like fall scented candles. I love going to Starbuck’s and ordering a pumpkin spice latte or even going to the store and buying pumpkin flavored ice cream. I am a sucker for anything pumpkin because it screams “fall” and “October” and it makes me so happy.
Halloween
The best for last. Halloween. This means fake blood and cobweb decorations, Halloweentown and other Disney movies, candy, costumes, haunted houses, and so much more. All things fun. The more you put into Halloween, the more you get out of it. Halloween is exciting at all ages too. Everyone can participate because you’re never too old or too cool to dress up as something that you’re not and have a little fun along the way. Just, this year, let’s try to keep it to a minimum with the clown costumes please.
Fall clothes
It’s about time. Living in Bloomington, Indiana, I am so beyond ready to wear fall clothes. I am sick of walking to class dripping sweat every day even though I’m only wearing a tank top and shorts. It should never still be 85 degrees and sunny the first week of October. Now that it is finally starting to cool off, I’m already pulling out the boots, scarves, jeans, oversized sweaters, cute jackets, flannels and knit socks. I love fall clothes and after a long, hot summer, I’m getting pretty sick of repeating the same shorts-tank top duo every day.
Post-season baseball
As a huge lifelong Cubs fan, you can see why I would be excited about this one and feel like it is a very important part about October this year. However, I am superstitious and don’t want to jinx anything so I’m not going to say too much about this topic other than GO CUBS!
It’s pretty
I’ll start off with saying how it’s just flat out pretty. The leaves are turning colors into beautiful shades of red, gold and orange. There’s no snow on the ground yet to turn into muddy slush and sit on the streets for weeks like in December and the other winter months. It’s just such a nice feeling driving home down a street lined with trees that are all turned into different colors as a reminder of just how beautiful nature can be after a long summer of plain green everywhere.
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