Entries tagged with "thanksgiving"
I am thankful that...
posted by srah on November 27, 2006 5:35 PM
Tags: holidays, thanksgiving, the office
I had many delicious Thanksgiving dinners (I think that, leftover-gorging included, it was a total of five or six) that other people kindly and deliciously prepared for meIt is many months until my next Thanksgiving gorge-festIt is less than 364 days until Pretzel Day....
Thanksgiving injury
posted by srah on November 27, 2003 4:05 PM
Tags: holidays, howie, thanksgiving
That stupid f***ing dog bit me! My foot is not bleeding, but he did break the skin. Now maybe someone will believe me when I say he's evil. Why do we let this horrible biting beast live in our house?...
The Pilgrims? Aren't they like monks?
posted by srah on November 18, 2002 2:25 PM
Tags: assistantship, holidays, teaching, thanksgiving
Today I did a lesson on Thanksgiving. It was not all I wanted it to be because the stinking Internet still isn't back, but it was okay. I used it on two classes. One was bored out of their minds and the other, one of my favorites if I'm allowed to say that, spent most of the time erupting into hysterical laughter that had nothing whatsoever to do with Thanksgiving. But at least they weren't dead. Anyway, I've been sidetracked. The point I wanted to make is that I told my students the story of Thanksgiving, then I told them...
Les fêtes
posted by srah on October 8, 2002 3:36 AM
Tags: assistantship, food, france, holidays, thanksgiving, united states
One of the students asked me today if I was going to celebrate Halloween with the other American assistants. I think they have an overblown image of the importance of Halloween here. When I was in Grenoble, Halloween came and went and I thought 'I suppose I should have made an effort'. For me, Halloween can be passed over if you're not in the homeland. Halloween is really all about costumes and trick-or-treating, both of which are hard to incorporate into an adopted culture. What will be difficult for me is missing out on Thanksgiving. Even in Grenoble, we had...
I'm thinking of the only Thanksgiving
posted by srah on November 22, 2001 11:29 AM
Tags: grenoble, holidays, study abroad, thanksgiving
I'm thinking of the only Thanksgiving that really stands out as memorable. The others, in the same locations and with the same people, all sort of blend together. But last year's Thanksgiving dashes all over Grenoble in the rain and eventual Thanksgiving a la francaise were... quite different. Don't know if I'd say better, exactly, but different....
