Thanksgiving...sort of.

So this post is a little late (as usual) but my host family here and I had a little "Thanksgiving" on Friday. We decided to move it from Thursday for several reasons but overall it was just easier for everyone to do it Friday since here everyone still had work and school all week. The change of date, however, wasn't the only reason for it's not-so-Thanksgiving-ish feeling.



First off we had hardly any of the traditional foods, as a matter of fact all we had that was traditional was the turkey, cranberry sauce, and salad...though I doubt the salad counts. Mano helped me cook everything, actually, it was more like I helped her cook, she's an amazing cook so for the sake of everyone eating the meal this was a much better arrangement. We didn't make a pie because we ended up not having time, there were no sweet potatoes because we couldn't find any, and she decided that instead of good ol' mashed potatoes we could just eat the leftover rice and chicken dish that she had prepared for lunch.






Secondly we didn't have the whole family together, it was just Mano, Isa, Mamy, Mamy's special friend, and me.

So it was rather quiet and very unlike the boisterous Thanksgivings I'm used to at home, and Mamy got it a bit confused and thought it was like the American equivalent of their Saint Nicholas, who comes with gifts on the 6th of December, and brought Isa and me each a box of chocolate (no complaints there haha).



But overall I think it was somewhat successful, we all had a good time and I think that they did get a little taste of Thanksgiving, or at least I hope they did.



Well I'll be going now, by some miracle, even though it's literally freezing outside, there isn't hardly a cloud in the sky. I think I'll take a walk and soak up every ray of light I can while it's there!