Thanksgiving

Ciao,
Thanksgiving was two days ago and although I was not able to spend it with my family, in the States, I still had an amazing Thanksgiving. The whole week leading up to Thursday, the house put up a Thankful Board with envelopes that had everybody's name on them. You had to opportunity to write letters to people telling them why you were thankful for them. It really got the house into the mood of Thanksgiving. I was really excited for this because even though I would not be spending Thanksgiving with my actual family at home, I was given the privilege of spending Thanksgiving with the family I have created while be over here in Firenze. It is just amazing to think that we all celebrate the common holiday every year and this year we get to all come together and share our traditions together, in a foreign country.

On Thanksgiving we had class... But after the houses last class of the day, some people then went to the local park and played flag football. A couple of Italians joined in on the game, which I thought was cool. After that we gathered together and each person in the house told one thing that they were thankful for and then we prayed. After the prayer we all went to eat Sara's amazing traditional Thanksgiving meal. She did a fabulous job cooking it! The turkey was so moist. The green beans were perfect. There was cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, dressing, and corn bread! It was all so good! Then for dessert we had apple pie, pecan pie, pumpkin pie and blueberry pie. It was all good and I was so stuffed after wards.

After dinner the house got together and held a coffee house, which is kind of like a talent show. I came to find out that we have so many talented people in this group. There we so many people who could sing, play the guitar, piano, violin and cello, and those people who could write beautiful poetry. This was definitely a lovely Thanksgiving to remember,