I Have Need For Nothing More

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! I am thankful for lots of things this year: Father’s amazing provisions, friends, and that our “Sports Meeting” was postponed to this week due to the extremely cold weather we had last week. That means that I don’t have to work today because the students are having a “mini-Olympics”.

I made plans with my friends from SC to have Turkey Day together. They made the main course and I provided drinks and dessert. I slept in a little that morning and talked with the fam on Skype. Then, it was time to venture off to get my contribution from Warlma. I couldn’t decide what to get for dessert, so I got a couple of Dove bars and a cake. The cake took some time to pick out because I wanted to find one that didn’t have tomatoes on it. Yes, tomatoes. Apparently, they are like a fruit here. (Yes, I DO know that tomatoes are technically a fruit, but last time I checked, we didn’t put them on cakes back home along with other fruit!) I finally found one sans cherry tomatoes and checked out, then made the venture to J & L’s apartment.

Our feast consisted of chicken breasts, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese, corn, and rolls. We tried to make it as traditional as possible, but getting a turkey out in our parts (the semi-sticks) is pretty difficult. Add in the complication of having no ovens and it gets even trickier. Nevertheless, it was one of the better Thanksgiving meals I can remember, but maybe that is because I haven’t eaten so well since my arrival here. In fact, we all noted that our stomachs had shrunk because we couldn’t eat the amount that we usually do back home in America.

Instead of sitting on the floor around the fireplace looking through newspaper ads and making Christmas/birthday lists, we sat on the couch around the laptop and watch Fred Claus. It was a very cute movie and I highly recommend it – btw. Plus, I really enjoyed hearing about the traditions of J & L’s families. It was a little sad not to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

All in all, it was a very good Thanksgiving. The best part of my Thanksgiving was getting to Skype with Lacey. We haven’t talked face to face (or computer screen to computer screen) since I left VA, and I sure do miss her. She has been coming home for Thanksgiving with me for the past 3 years and this year, in the absence of Court and me, she came to be a surrogate daughter. I am so glad that she feels like a part of our family now!