In a theatre surrounded by white walls with gold carvings, several balconies, red carpeting and wooden floors, dancers dressed in costumes of wolves and ducks leap, prance and crawl on stage. Behind these dancers, colorful screen projections act as a backdrop and illustrate the characters of these dancers.

COPIAPO, Chile – They emerged changed men from the hole in the Chilean desert, once-unsung gold and copper miners from an obscure town in the country’s barren north.

Rescued from a granite prison half a mile underground, their first hours of freedom offered a taste of what the rest of their lives might hold: commercial offers, entreaties for the tiniest detail of their lives, and people asking, over and over, what it was like to endure 69 days underground.

Well, I have been in England for a month and a half now, and just that thought seems completely impossible. I have done so much this semester that I have hardly noticed the time passing. Things are changing all around me just as they would were I home, but it’s harder to notice them.

In light of October’s annual festivities, I found myself pondering totally unique and original Halloween costume ideas. In particular, ideas that catered to the highlights of the 2010-year thus far. Every year, All-Hallows-Eve goers seem to wear the typical Disney Princess, Joker, or Fairy-type.

According to national surveys, Halloween costume buyers are ga-ga for GaGa.

The results of a National Retail Federation survey reproduced by thirdage.com state that “the Lady Gaga costume in many different forms is one of the more popular costumes people are seeking out.