Today we celebrated Thanksgiving at my school with my English club! We also invited K and his boys to come and join us. My teacher did all the shopping and even got a turkey at Costco. They only had big 11 kg turkeys that would have never fit in the small school ovens, so she ordered a 3 kg one from them. The smallest turkey I’ve ever seen ha. I gathered all these recipes from my mom and friends so we managed to have turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, stuffing with homemade bread, sweet potato casserole, and pumpkin bars (aka squares of pumpkin pie since there are no pie dishes here). K bought some sparkling apple juice. Cooking the turkey was tricky too because we don’t have a good rack or pan here, nor a turkey baster, but it all worked out. I think it was perfectly done! Not overcooked which I had worried about. We put the turkey in during lunch time and then my teacher and I checked on it during our free periods.

I’m so happy. Everything turned out well despite hunting for ingredients and having to make some substitutions. It really had the Thanksgiving taste and feel. Yesterday we did a bunch of prep work from 5 to 8 pm. The students split into teams and tackled everything head on. I had to run around helping because most of them don’t cook. They also did all the washing up. It was fun working as a team. In the end, we had 24 people at our table with two third year girls even coming. We said our thanks before the meal. I think they really felt the spirit of Thanksgiving!