Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Giving Thanks

So in case you were dying to know what I did this weekend- it was a typically lame but quite enjoyable Bryn Mawr weekend. Actually there were things going on for once, but alas, we could not be bothered to leave our room. Friday night Nicky and I watched the Muppet Show on DVD, staying up til nearly 11, and Saturday Ari brought her Netflix and we did work while watching. I remained in my bed for the entirety.

Now it is Thanksgiving time- I will head to New Jersey to stay with my Aunt Jeanine and Uncle Ken for the break, as I did freshman and sophomore year. It's a pretty chill time, and my aunt enjoys having a girl to go shopping with for once. I enjoy having a family, free food, and being away from the Mawr for a bit.

Although it does make me think of last year's Thanksgiving in Hong Kong, which was really fun. I miss my Hong Kong family. We found a place to introduce our non-American friends to the American Thanksgiving dinner.



I loved when we drew our hand turkeys, which we Americans have been trained to do since early childhood, and the others didn't get it:




There are a lot of random things that make me miss HK- the birthdays of my HKU friends popping up on the newsfeed, since a lot of our nightlife was planned around birthdays. Soy milk reminds me of the little juice boxes I would buy at school every day. The other day at Borders someone answered their phone "Wei?"

But to end this post, a photo. And yes, in case you were wondering, I was Google image searching "baby." But I for one think this could qualify as child abuse:

"Guiness" baby Halloween costume

4 comments:

PaigeS said...

It creeps me out that you were google searching "baby". That is all.

Marianna said...

hahahahahahahaha to paige's comment

and I love that costume

Nicole said...

um wow 2 things:
1. why were you even searching "baby"!
and 2. that is really...really..scary, couldn't they just dress their child in a pea pod like "normal" people?

Eric Layland said...

i love that you traced your hand to make turkeys and only the americans got it. because i did that at work too and the few foreigners I work with just didn't get it. AT ALL. I offered to teach a girl from the Philippines and she gave up saying it was just too hard she didn't understand. Ha!