Día de los Muertos & Halloween

Hello everybody!
I am going to talk about Día de los Muertos & Halloween.
Día de los Muertos is a traditional Mexican celebration. It means day of the dead people. It is celebrated on 2nd November. They celebrate this day to remember the death people. This day also signifies that they are not afraid of death. On this day the Mexicans put an altar where they put the photo of a dead person with the food, dress she or he wore & things that person liked when he or she was alive. In my school also they put the altar to Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez (She is a great Mexican Freedom fighter), because my school has her name. They put her photo with her favorite things & dress she liked. We also make calaveras (skeletons) dressed with different costumes. I made a calavera dressed with saree. It was selected as one of the best calaveras & placed in the School Mural.

Halloween is an American celebration (My father says that this tradition came from Europe). It is celebrated on the night of 31st October. Halloween is a day when people dress like witches, mummies, monsters, Dracula etc. I dressed like a bruja (witch). We go in the streets & ask for sweets in houses or stores, by telling dulces o travesuras (means give us sweets or we will do tricks). We also tell queremos (We like) Halloween. You can also make a spooky pumpkin by cutting triangle shaped eyes, a zigzag mouth & lit a candle inside it. Last and this year, I went around two colonies with my friends Katy, Nasty & their mother, Dra. Ana. We collected many sweets. This day is a very jolly day of the year.