Yesterday afternoon I walked to the bus station to pick up my friend Yu-Chi, and exchange student from Taiwan. We walked to my friend Michelle's house, where Sharon, an exchange student from Ecuador, met us. Michelle's host mom drove us first to Jordann's house, where we picked her up, and then to another exchange student's house, Giulia. Giulia is also from the U.S., and she invited us and a couple of other students to her house to cook and eat Thanksgiving dinner! The four Americans got cooking around 6 PM, and two roast beefs (Turkey isn't very popular until Christmas here), no-recipe chocolate mousse berry tarte, and everything else (including pumpkin pie :) ) later, we were sitting around a Thanksgiving table in a house that had never celebrated it before, with 7 people who had never eaten pumpkin pie. We went around the table and said grace in our native language (there was French, English, Spanish, Hungarian, and Chinese), and we dug into the delicious meal!
It was a truly wonderful night, and one of the most memorable Thanksgiving's I will ever have.
Pictures coming I hope!
It was a truly wonderful night, and one of the most memorable Thanksgiving's I will ever have.
Pictures coming I hope!