Today was Thanksgiving, a holiday which is not really recognized in Asia because it isn't very commercial and it is country specific. Despite this fact, the Americans in my city went all out and had a good old fashioned pot-luck Dinner. We had cornbread dressing, broccoli rice casserole, sweet potato casserole (my favorite), mashed potatoes, veggies (my other favorite), pumpkin and pecan pies, and Chicken. That's right, a turkey is now alive today because we had chicken for Thanksgiving dinner.
After dinner we played Phase 10 (and I was stuck on phase 5 until the end of the game, but we won't talk about that), and then we took part in a very odd holiday tradition that we started on the 4th of July. The place we have our holiday get togethers is a 10th/top floor apartment. On the fourth of July we went up on the roof and someone started spitting watermelon seeds off. Then it progressed and someone threw their watermelon rind into the bushes, so then we all did it and tried not to hit the protruding air vents on the way down. It was fun so we decided to do it every holiday. So tonight we through dinner rolls off the balocony. Of course these were kind of hard and ball shaped so dropping it into the bushes was not the objective. This time we threw them and tried to get them onto roof tops and in other places. Unfortunately it was dark so we could not see where they landed exactly but we could hear the thud and kind of tell if it landed on a roof or the ground. Now I know this probably sounds very adolescent to you, but I will let you know that all of the participants are fully grown adults and some of them even have grown kids. Don't worry we didn't hit anyone and we have made a point to only throw things that are ok for the environment. So what will the food of choice be for Christmas? I don't know yet, but it will be exciting!
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