American Thanksgiving Dinner

Even though the Germans do not celebrate Thanksgiving, we still did!  Brian had to work (since he takes German holidays and not American ones) and I spent a lot of my day on the phone wishing my family a happy Thanksgiving.  We did have German class and surprised our teachers a bit when we wished them a "Happy Thanksgiving" (in English).  They weren't quite sure what we were talking about at first, but figured it out soon enough.

In the evening, we went to the Collins' house for Thanksgiving dinner.  There were 20 people there from America, Canada, Singapore, Zimbabwe, and Germany.  For some of the people, it was the first time they had celebrated Thanksgiving.  It was fun to share this tradition with them!  We had all very American food (nothing else was allowed!) and had a wonderful time of fellowship.  Even though we couldn't spend the day with our families, it was nice to be able to spend it with our "German" family!