To start the day well, I had the day off work. They forgot to tell me, but I'm getting used to that. So far I'm not having many problems with being the last person to know what my schedule is. Graeme is awesome, and I'll miss him, but I can't wait till he leaves and I get to have a more consistent schedule.
My mom sent me a package a while ago. It arrived last week, but since nobody was at the apartment at the time of arrival, it was taken back to a post office. After a couple days of asking the Chinese teachers, I finally managed to get a general location of a post office near the apartment. The trip out on Wednesday was unsuccessful at finding it, but I spotted it on a bus ride home later that night.
Yesterday morning I made my way over there and was able to get the words "home" and "afternoon" out of them. So I went home and watched some TV and movies with Saffron. By about eight, I figured that the package wasn't going to get here, but it was only a minor thing and didn't throw off the night.
Since the two main people I hang out with here are from England and Australia, I've been explaining how Thanksgiving works a lot. A lot. Our family usually has dinner much earlier than normal. Usually at about one or two in the afternoon. My mom spends most of the morning in the kitchen, and my brother and I help out just enough to make us feel a little less guilty. (Though my brother is usually there for the entire pie baking phase.)
Our dinner usually consists of Turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables, (lots of) stuffing, a cylindrical red cranberry sauce, and occasionally some other foods depending on what is available at the time. For desert is always apple pie, and pumpkin pie. Occasionally some other kind as well.
For thanksgiving at the apartment, I made spaghetti.
Dane, Saffron, and I watched a movie (the usual night) and ate spaghetti on Thanksgiving. It makes me kind of depressed if I linger on that thought, but we had a great night, and it contained everything that was actually important about thanksgiving. Being with friends and family and being thankful for what we have. Sure it was lacking a Bird, but It was still a great Thanksgiving.
I can't wait till Christmas.
Friday, November 28, 2008
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It won't be easy to find turkey in Xian. Christmas is coming, some discos will throw parties at that time. Don't miss them or you'll be even more depressed. :)
The CNY will have great atmosphere on the streets. Enjoy.
U should look into international hotels if u r keen for a 'real' xmas dinner, as they often offer Xmas lunches/ dinner... We had our first Xmas in China in our flat and it was sort of sad. Last Xmas we were with a big group of friends and that was better... although the fact that I am going home this year makes me so happy I can barely sit still. Two Xmases abroad in a row is more than enough!
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