I had a surprise Thanksgiving feast today. Right as I happened to get to Ouaga for my meetings tomorrow everyone was leaving to go over to a Peace Corps persons house. We arrived and it was a legitimate Thanksgiving feast, turkey, stuffing mashed potatoes, delicious salads and pie! Pumpkin and apple. I ate over 5 hours ago and am still sickeningly full, so I'd say it was a smashing success. Tomorrow morning were going over to someone else's house to eat breakfast- homemade bagels, quiche and cinnamon rolls and play board games. I love everyone right now.
Today in my English class I taught them the verbs to clean and to wash and they made sentences out of them about household chores and I was really impressed and happy with them so I applauded them. They really love it when I do that. Also I showed them how to make hand turkey's for thanksgiving and they thought that was the cat's pajamas.
In traditional Thanksgiving fashion I'd like to say a few things I'm thankful for. At the moment, I am thankful for overeating and looking forward to the overeating I'm going to be doing tomorrow. I told a neighbor about Thanksgiving and I said, 'it's a party where you eat to much.' He laughed and so did I, but really....it's true! I'm thankful for the internet (get ready for some more updated blog posts! and maybe some photos). I'm thankful for the great good fortune I had to be born in America. I'm thankful that I can say no to men. I'm thankful to be here and get a more than welcome change of perspective and turn my life around. I'm thankful for frozen bags of yogurt. I'm thankful for electricity. I'm thankful for little kids, if it weren't for adorable, hilarious children I would probably go crazy and cry all the time. I'm thankful for my family, I really love it when they call me. I'm thankful for surprise packages. I'm thankful for friends and memories. I'm thankful to have found an employment where at the end of the day or the week I can look back and feel proud of what I've done.
I uploaded a couple of photos
25 November 2010
Happy Thanksgiving
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2 comments:
It's so nice and brave of your teaching at Africa. I do admire you and happy thanksgiving.
It was really fun to see your pictures and see where you live. You are awesome!
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