All entries for Sunday 10 October 2004

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I just came back from a wonderful dinner with 2 other Canadians, 1 American, 1 British, 4 Malaysian, 2 Belgian?! and 1 German… to celebrate our Canadian Thanksgiving!!

Suey, Ceri and I went to Tesco after church to buy some groceries;
we bought 2 turkey meat, 2 lasagna, carrots, broccoli, potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn… and i think that was about it…

then we started cooking around 5:30 in our small kitchen, using 4 different small pots we can find…. it was chaotic… and hot, and stuffy… but all our hard work paid off when it was time to eat…

there were more people that we originallly had planned, but i guess as the night went on, i realized more the merrier…
earlier this week, and even today i was starting to get annoyed because nothing was really planned, and no one really knew what they were bringing and just how much to bring cause we weren't sure of how many people were going to show up…

Suey said, in the end, everything works out… so eventually, i had to stop stressing, which was a hard lesson for me to learn… to let go of controlling every situation… (that was my quick lesson of the day)

7 o'clock came around, there were about 9 people in the kitchen by this time, still trying to finish cooking all the veges, making pasta salad, which we had wayyyyy too much of… i'll be eating it for the next couple of days… as you will see in the pictures…

we had…

2 turkey meat, 1 chicken which we didn't even get to eat, corn, cooked carrots and broccoli, mash potato, garlic bread, and a pasta (lasgna) dish… it was deeeelicious!!!!

alllll, 12 of us sat in the kitchen, where we couldn't even move out of our seats to grab more food, we all had to bring our own plates and utensils cause there weren't enough for everyone…

once our dinner was done, we had dessert made by stephan and Florian, who made Crepe with apples cut up, sugar and ice cream.. as well as this german dessert, 'cream with peach'....

unfortunately, we never got to go around and say what we were thankful for, but for me, i was definitely thankful that i didn't have to sit and eat thanksgiving dinner alone in my empty kitchen on a sunday evening.. it was just so wonderful to be sharing a meal with people…
i don't think i ever really appreciated sharing a warm, cooked meal with people, even if you didn't even know them too well…

it definitely felt like home away from home…

so everyone back home, happy thanksgiving to you… hope you appreciate the warm meals you'll get to share with your family, and your friends this thanksgiving… i couldn't have had a better time tonight, so i am thankful… that i got to have my first canadian thanksgiving away from home…

: 10 Oct 2004 23:44 |  Tags: Warwick Updates |  Comments (5) |  Close comments |  Report a problem