Thanksgiving

Well, as you probably know, I spent this year's Thanksgiving away from home. For the first time in my life, I wasn't sitting around the table with family. This alone was different for me, but the entire Thanksgiving weekend was. Then again, what hasn't been different so far..

This all started with the fact that I had three classes on Thanksgiving day. Never in my life have I had school on this day, so it was a little depressing heading to class. To my surprise, my classes would turn out to be really cool. First we took a field trip, and for my second class of the day, our professor canceled class and took us all to a café, and bought us coffee and muffins! Ridiculously awesome!

I followed up class by having a nice skype convo with the fam, so at least I got my family fix in for just a little.
This was when I realized that my "Thanksgiving dinner" would be very, very different. Although I had plans for that evening to see a play, "Carmen", I did not have any plans for dinner. So I would end up eating Thanksgiving dinner, alone, at Burger King. LOL

But you see, this was OK, I actually embraced the moment. My family thought it was quite funny too, and helped me realize that this day would be one I would never forget. So there I was, alone in Burger King on Thanksgiving, with a big smile on my face. Probably never again will this happen, and for this reason I was able to really enjoy that moment. 

Things were a little more normal that Saturday, as I was invited to a "Thanksgiving party" at the house of an American. The party was nice for me, I was able to get a little piece of home. There were a few other Americans, some Spaniards, Germans, Polish, just multicultural. But then again, the first Thanksgiving was a dinner between different cultures, so in a way, we captured the true purpose of Thanksgiving with that party. Anyway, it was more of a buffet style, rather than sit down, but this was nice. Really good food, nice people, and just another great experience. These kinds of things can be hard to come across, and for that, I am thankful.  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!