the koreans were from his wife mj's church, so they were all super nice and spoke varying degrees of english. before we ate, a lady from the church gave a really nice speech about her time living in the united states, and how difficult it is to be away from home for important holidays, especially those that aren't important where you are. at the end she asked us to become part of their "love story," and it was probably the cutest thing i have ever heard in my entire life.
oh yeah i forgot to mention reason 5) EATING CHIPS AND GUAC WITH CHOPSTICKS. i am awesome
after dinner we hung out with this awesome chinese girl, miley (chosen because of miley cyrus, seriously), who speaks fluent english and korean. also, richard's daughters brenda and nancy, ages eleven and nine, with whom i would like to be bff 4 lyphe. after they changed my ringtones to "i don't care" and "gee" with ease, we all played dress-up with a box of barrettes. best. thanksgiving. ever.
family portrait?
thanksgiving part two took place at our friend cindy's apartment in seohyeon. abby made the most fabulous turkey i have ever had, and there was plenty of stovetop and manischewitz to go around.
a super attractive view of the spread?
then we were super cool and watched timeline, even though cindy's tv is "locked" so we had to watch it at a just-audible volume and couldn't change the channel no matter how hard we wished. also, i gracefully lost a game of scrabble.
all in all, a successful thanksgiving. it was sad to not be home, but it was nice to share it with people who were in the same place as me. i felt like i was surrounded by family the whole weekend, though that might have just been the wine.
Annie, I am so glad you had a family to spend Thankgiving with and a lot of food and wine.
ReplyDeleteI miss you and I am so glad your traveling during your Christmas break.
Have fun, stay safe ..... miss you, love you