Every year on my campus, the adults always made all the decisions around us. Even if it was an event for children, the adults came up with the idea and basically organized it. It’s not like they didn’t consider our opinion, we just had no opinion and let the adults do whatever they wanted as long as we benefited from it. Four years ago that changed.

We had never celebrated Halloween before and just read about it in books. My brother and his best friend were around five years old at that time. The two of them had just finished reading a book about Halloween and got a sugar high, just thinking about all that candy. And just like that, they wanted to celebrate Halloween.

We started off by sending a letter to everyone on the campus, telling him or her what we wanted. We included links to pages about Halloween and made sure to tell them explicitly to stock up on candy. The event was approved, as long as we organized the entire thing.

We made a list of houses willing to give out candy and organized a Halloween parade in the process. Surprisingly, most kids on campus showed up. We had all sorts of creatures with us, from cute toddlers dressed as dinosaurs to vampires and zombies. We went all around the campus. It was a little difficult at first, with the little kids running everywhere. But soon everyone calmed down, and the event went smoothly. To our pleasant surprise all the people in the neighborhood had enough candy for everyone. All the children really enjoyed it and we decided to make it a yearly custom.