Happy Thanksgiving from good old Hsinchu, Taiwan!
Hoping you and your families had the most blessed of days
and didn’t forget to throw in an extra thank you (or 20) throughout your day!
If you take the time to truly look around it is absolutely amazing how much God
has given each and every one of us to be thankful for!
Now trust, I realize, that they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving
in Taiwan…shoot, most people don’t even have any idea what it is, but that doesn’t
mean that this American girl went through the day without a little turkey and
Macy’s Day parade!
The last 2 weeks I have been teaching my students about
thanksgiving…in the most BASIC form possible! I’m not kidding, part of my
presentation included “bye-bye England…Hello America” haha…like I said BASIC!
We also talked about traditions, foods we eat, watched the parade & crazy
shoppers, and thought of all the things we have to be thankful for!
I’m all about numbers, so here’s a little Turkey Day breakdown for you!
13 – times I re-watched the 2014 Macy’s Day parade
46 – the number of Thanksgiving day pop-up cards we made
5 – the number of plates I had of thanksgiving food! {eating
is a sport right?!)
11 – the number of American’s that made it to our
Thanksgiving dinner!
1,354 – the number of times I had to repeat the word PILGRIM
for the children to understand how to pronounce the word!
Also, some misconceptions that I dispelled during classes…we
do not eat TURTLES for Thanksgiving, papaya pie is not served at the
table, and the big bowl of fluffy stuff is neither rice nor mashed sandwiches
but rather mashed potatoes! Haha oh the ESL classroom!
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| Turkey Day group! William, RJ, Tina, myself, Matthew & baby Jacob, Ruth, Tory, Rebecca, Glen, & Angie. |
THEN, to make Thanksgiving even better, we found out
the Sheraton in Hsinchu was having Turkey on their buffet Thursday night…cue in
11 excited Americans and a solid 3 hours of eating, and we all left more happy
and Thankful than we would have thought
possible! I’m telling you, I had turkey, mashed potatoes, salad, cheese {these
last 2 are difficult to find here!}, pumpkin pie, chocolate cake…oh my
goodness, delicious! (And thank goodness for flowy shirts at Thanksgiving!)
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| Don't know what I'd do without these girls in Taiwan! |
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| Next up, let the Christmas celebrations begin! |
Do you know if they do this every year?
ReplyDeleteI think 2015 was the first year that couch surfers did the event, but it was such a great turnout, I'm sure they will plan something again this year!
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