as the Germans would say. For the past week I've been teaching all my classes about Thanksgiving, because it's a holiday that's basically unknown in Germany. I've been talking about mashed potatoes and green bean casserole and pie and all the other delicious Thanksgiving food for so long that I can hardly wait to finally eat them tonight! I don't think the German students share my enthusiasm for Thanksgiving, though: most of them thought that making a dessert out of pumpkin was the most disgusting idea ever. At least my 6th graders enjoyed making hand turkeys today. Such are the finer points of American culture that I'm introducing them to.
Tonight I'm getting together with a group of Americans and a few Germans to have an almost-proper Thanksgiving. I say almost because 1) we don't have the day off, meaning dinner has to be in the evening rather than the afternoon, 2) the girl's apartment we're going to decided we're going to have goose rather than turkey (because turkeys are kind of hard to find in Germany), and 3) this will be the first Thanksgiving I'll spend not in the company of my family or relatives. I miss everybody a lot, but I've heard pumpkin pie with extra whipped cream does wonders for homesickness. I'll keep you posted on whether that's true or not. In the meantime, I hope every one of you has a wonderful, delicious, relaxing Thanksgiving!
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