After much careful thought and consideration - and a crucial, though relatively civil, debate over which theme to pursue - "creepy" or "cute" -, my roomate Mine and I decided upon a fabulous design for her FIRST. PUMPKIN. EVER.
Can you believe that? Honestly, what do the Japanese do with their free time!?
She started off a little slow - refusing to choose the pumpkin doomed for our mini-carver of death. After a few minutes, though, I swear, Mine was incredible. She took to that pumpkin like she'd been making super-awkward-not-at-all-realistic pumpkin visages her entire life! No kidding, she's like, really good at pumpkin carving.
Like, you know how the eyeballs always fall out, and the mouth to nose ratio is always just a bit off, and the eyebrows are just a tad too large? Not our pumpkin. And little strains of pumpkin-gut hanging out of the nose and mouth? Non-existent on our masterpiece. "Our" here is used lightly - considering the one part I tried to carve resulted in an epic failure (I totally slaughtered the mouth to nose ratio, in case you were wondering).
Anyhow, moral of the story, foreigners carve pumpkins better than natives.
Ok, Ok. Let's not stereotype. Just because Mine carves pumpkins 100% more effortlessly than I, it hardly proves that every international student will be able to conquer Cindarella's carriage with such astounding grace.
See how worldly I've become?
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| Ultimately creepy, but with a little bit of cute and flirtatiousness built in. Notice the clean lines, symmetry and proportions - None of which I brought to fruition. |
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