Last year, Thanksgiving made me homesick. I missed my family, turkey, pumpkin pie, football, etc. This year, even though I didn't get to celebrate by sitting down with my family over a HUGE turkey, I got to celebrate for 3-days-straight with many of my "new" friends. No matter how I look at it, I have much to give thanks for!
On Thanksgiving Day (Thursday), I decided to take a small treat for my class. Thanksgiving is a day to eat traditional food... so I bought some traditional Taiwanese candies for my classmates :-) Thursday evening, in honor of the holiday and to have some fun after our mid-term exams, a bunch of friends and I went to KTV! We sang songs and danced until the wee-hours of the morning.
After going home for a 'power-nap', I returned to Taoyuan city, where the director of our graduate school treated us to a "Thank You" dinner. Not to celebrate Thanksgiving, but to thank us for our help with the Ministry of Education assessment. :-)
Saturday evening, I was lucky enough to attend our church's Thanksgiving party (an outreach event for college students.) They had planned for about 150 people, but almost twice that number showed up. Although, each person only got a taste of the turkey and pumpkin pie, it was amazing to spend time with so many friends and meet lots of new ones! Eddie, Angel, and other friends from church did a great job planning and hosting the party and service! Afterward our "service" got underway and we had a wonderful time singing, praying and GIVING THANKS together!
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