Saturday, our friend Shaunna from my program and her roommate hosted a Thanksgiving dinner. This dinner consisted of people from Great Britian, Spain, Ireland and the USA. We fit about 30 people into their small apartment and enjoyed some delicious traditional Thanksgiving food along with some less traditional food like sushi and the Spanish tortilla. After we finished eating we split up into teams, the Europeans and the Americans. The Europeans wrote down 10 words in Spanish and we Americans wrote down 10 words in English. The theme was "Thanksgiving" of course! We traded words and played pictionary with them. We had to guess the word in the respective language though. This game put my Spanish to the test.
Although we missed being at home with family and friends to celebrate, we enjoyed having two Thanksgivings here.
Thanksgiving #1:
Thanksgiving #2
Playing multilingual Pictionary. The American Team:
I had to draw: peregrino (pilgrim)
Ben had to draw: relleno (stuffing)
Kristin what a neat experience to be able to have Thanksgiving in another country! It's good you got to somewhat celebrate and eat Turkey! I was thinking about it and last year in South America Kristin and I didn't eat one thing having to do with Thanksgiving- and we spent the whole day traveling to Peru and sleeping at the airport! lol. Glad you were able to laugh and be with other Americans who could share in the joy and understanding of this great American holiday! Reading these posts makes me wish I was with you!! xoxo
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