I am thankful for the world of opportunity that I’ve been given. I am thankful for the people I’ve met and the history I’ve seen. I am thankful for home, too.<\/p>\n
France, obviously, does not do Thanksgiving. The fact that the IAU tried was lovely – we ate strange turkey (we think?) and stuffing and green beans and mashed potatoes and drank pumpkin soup out of a straw from a cup – but the day was still a little off. We couldn’t wake up to the Thanksgiving parade. My favorite Ringing-In-The-Christmas-Season tradition, seeing Christmas commercials (we live in a consumerist society, people), didn’t flip on my internal switch for Christmas music. I haven’t listened to a single carol. Thanksgiving in the underground student lounge of an old French nunnery isn’t the first thing that pops into mind when you think of the holidays, but that’s where I was when all of America was carving new notches into their belts.<\/p>\n
But Thanksgiving turned into something even more special. My friend’s host family agreed to do Thanksgiving, so my housemate and I were invited over for a semi-traditional meal. It still wasn’t quite the same – the turkey was chicken, there were appetizers and baguettes and cheese, and the only talk of politics was about France’s upcoming election rather than the post-election-fiasco I can look forward to witnessing in a few weeks’ time – but I was surrounded by friends who cared about me, eating a massive, somewhat familiar meal, feeling more at home in a stranger’s gated community than I have felt in a true, long while. It was a magical, unique experience and a Thanksgiving I’ll never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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