Thanksgiving!

Halloween, christmas, eastern - holidays that are much, much bigger here in America than they are back home. However, there are a few holidays that we don't even HAVE. Americans like to celibrate, I guess. Thanksgiving is one of those holidays. I've heard the word 'thanksgiving' in several American movies, but what the heck is thanksgiving really? I had no idea. So I went around and asked people in the school. The only answer I could get out of my peers was 'you eat until you drop on the floor and can't move anymore'. I realized there was probably more to it than that and asked my Geoscience teacher, Mr. Clifford. Luckily he was able to explain me that it was related to the native Americans way way back in the history of this country, that helped the immigrants through the winter by giving them food and stuff. Short summary. At the end he did add that all indeed kind of revolved around one thing; food.


And oh, I noticed! On wednesday evening, some family came over and we already had dinner with a lot of food. However, thanksgiving was on Thursday, and oh lord there was so much! Turkey and ham - the tradition for Thanksgiving, but also mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, something with vegetables and cheese (which was really good), eggs, jello, jello with fruit, stuffing or something like that to eat with the ham, and more.. it was crazy. For desert there was Pumpkin pie , which is traditional too, and homemade Dutch apple pie, haha. I have never been so glad I am a vegetarian, because I don't even want to know how much I would have eaten if I could have had everything. I did get a whole lot of other stuff to eat, though, so I kind of have to much myself this week.


The Friday and Saturday after thanksgiving were basically the same - a lot of people and even more food. On Friday, Caro and I went to St George (Utah) with Sarah, Jackie and Richard, for Black Friday. Black Friday is every friday after Thanksgiving, when the stores get crazy sales and everybody goes out to a Walmart or whatever store at 12 a.m., to get things for the lowest price possible. We didn't go at 12 a.m. (thank God), but we did spend several hours shopping. It was awesome!
Even on Sunday evening, after church, half the family came over again to eat the famous 'Chicken rolls'.

I had an amazing weekend - it was kind of busy but very nice to have so many people around, and it was a great new experience!

Counting off the days 'till christmas now..!