For those of you who also live in the Southern hemisphere and this is an unknown concept for you except for on the movies...Thanksgiving is a holiday set apart when the pilgrims came to North America and it was the first harvest in a new land... lots of corn and pumpkin and beans and of course the turkey! It was so celebrate the gifts they had been given by God in the year past and with the harvest and to be thankful for family and friends and all those good things.
So I went to my bosses' in laws for thanksgiving dinner... They have a beautiful wooden house on the edge of a lake, there was fall clours all around the house and the inside had fun things like pumpkins and autumn decorations. The family was playing horse shoe throwing and there were kids running around and a puppy and lots of food in a house that actually had indoor heating (again, a foreign concept for us kiwi's)
I honestly felt like I was in a movie or something... it was so so great.
I have so many things to be thankful for... we were talking about this today and I dont even know where to start! I am thankful first above anything for Jesus. Most of all. And Im thankful for my house mates here who make me laugh and stop me being lonely... Im thankful for my friends and family back home who tell me they are thinking fo me and make an effort to naviagte the time zones to talk to me... Im thankful for the beautiful colours here... Im thankful that I get to work in a place where a lot of the time I feel like I should pay to be here...I could go on forever!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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