Sretan Dan Zahvalnosti

Translation: Happy Thanksgiving!
I do hope everyone gained at least ten pounds.

We celebrated Thanksgiving here at the Tuškans yesterday afternoon, somehow managing to cram 25 people into the living room. Janet was worried we weren't going to have enough food, which is quite funny, because I get the feeling we are going to be eating Thankgiving food for the next couple of lifetimes. We had all of the Rotary Girls (I can say Rotary girls, because there is only one male exchange student in all of Croatia, and he doesn't live in Zagreb) and their host families, along with our Croatian teacher, and one of our counselors, Ljiljana.

I made hand turkeys for decorations, and decided to color them during school-the reaction from my classmates was hilarious. They could not figure out why I had traced my hand and was attempting to make it look like a turkey. (Purica is the word for Turkey) They didn't understand that every American kid makes a hand turkey at some point in their life. But my class was literally in an uproar; crowded around asking what was wrong with me. It is also sort of difficult to explain the meaning of Thanksgiving to people, because there no real point to it, and there is no activity beyond gorging.

I did mangage to make cornbread, along with Walnut Pie. It was suppose to be Pecan Pie (Mom, I missed your Pecan Pie) but you can't get pecans in Croatia. I also got to experience chopping up an entire pumpkin for Pumpkin Pie. It took me about 45 minutes to chop the whole thing up-and I almost took of my hand a few times...

Time for lunch...wonder what we are having?

Lots of Love, thinking of you all.