Happy Thanksgiving!

This was my first Thanksgiving away from my family! It was so weird! I still do not feel like it was Thanksgiving or that it will be Christmas soon.  With it still being so hot and being so far from my family it has never felt less like the holiday season.  My sister stayed in Boston, my Aunt had to work and stayed in Oregon, and my Mom didn't go to our family's house in Marin.

I tried to teach my students about Thanksgiving and they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about, understandably.  I had them draw hand turkeys and they kept calling them chickens. No turkey in Thailand!

All of the farangs decided we would try to make it a big deal.  I went and got all of the chicken I could find from the night market.  Brandon got pumpkin veggie medley from another market, Leah got some beer, Mel, Kate Rose, and Mimi got wine, mashed potatoes from KFC, and rolls from the Big C, Amanda found some brownies and mango sticky rice and Kate made some microwave no bake chocolate thing  that was delicious! I had a friend visiting from America, Elise, who got to join in our festivities! It was pretty fun. We went around our table at the Compound (our nickname for where the other farangs live) and talked about what we were thankful for and what we usually do on Thanksgiving. It was the weirdest Thanksgiving I have ever had and I still do not feel like it was real but I will never forget it!

Our silly spread

The Gang

Hand Turkeys!