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Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving holiday has come and past...it's definitely been interesting celebrating this very American holiday in a foreign land. In fact, I think over the last two years, I have had more "Thanksgiving Dinners" with all the fixings than the previous 4 years in the states....and they are all unique...

First, we attended a dinner celebrating the 25th Anniversary of ICSV on Tuesday night where we ate, you guessed it, a Turkey dinner.

The next day, I was walking through the cafeteria when I noticed that the students' plates were piled high with Turkey and mashed potatoes...so I decided to buy lunch in the cafeteria for the first time.

For Thursday, we were approached by a couple of members of the class of 2012 to host a Thanksgiving celebration for the students who didn't have anywhere else to go...we agreed, but realized that our flats were entirely too small for a group of 26. We decided to have the meal in my classroom. Good times.

While it was not an official class event, over 2/3 of the kids were able to join us!

(all photos below courtesy of Tricia Klein. See the entire album at her flickr page)





Daniel Gardner trying to get Kailyn's attention...
This year was definitely one of the more surreal Thanksgiving weeks...but it was a great week, nonetheless...

We still have one more Thanksgiving-esque meal on tap for this Friday at the Staff Christmas party...although I guess, technically, it would be a Christmas meal. Either way, it will be delicious.



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