Pumpkin Head

I live in an international dorm focused on language, where we are split into 7 language halls - Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. (I live on the German Hall). We have a Halloween party every year, and among the festivities, each hall is given a pumpkin to have at it and try to win our pumpkin carving competition. Preference is given to halls with pumpkins that are culturally related.

Some of you who know me might remember the German flag eagle that I contributed to the hall pumpkin two years ago:



It came out not too bad, but we unfortunately didn't even place.

This year was determinedly different. And though I initially started the pumpkin with no expectation of winning, it eventually came out to be first-place material.



Ta-Daaaaaa. I'm proud of it.

(And I hope my fellow hallmates won't hold it against me for taking all the work... It's difficult for more than 1-2 people to work on a pumpkin, though!)

Oh man, there might be a girl from the French hall who took photos of all the pumpkins lit up. I took some time to shave out the inside on the side with Beethoven's face so that it would shine through distinctly if there was a light inside. I will see if she has those.