So here I go, late as always.
Typical I guess. :)
I guess I should probably tell everyone about my Thanksgiving, even though I am a couple weeks late.
Thanksgiving was….fun/stressful/strange. As most people with an education at least to the third grade know, Thanksgiving is an American holiday. (kudos to Rachel…nah just kidding) Not really found in other countries and not found in Sweden either. But as an exchange student I wanted to do something for my family and friends that was thanksgiving-ish.
So in a moment of pure recklessness I decided to have my own Thanksgiving feast and invited, not only, the family, but also four of my friends as well.
It wasn’t until the Saturday before our Swedish Thanksgiving (I used Sunday, before actual turkey day because it was the most convenient for everyone) that I realized what I had just signed up for. I was going to be cooking food for 16 people, and I had never even cooked a turkey before.
And then of course there was the issue of finding the ingredients (the most frustrating part) in the end I couldn’t find more than half of the right things and had to end up substituting ingredients and changing the menu several times. I couldn’t find pumpkin pie mix, so I had planned to make it with real pumpkin except I couldn’t find that so I just dropped that idea and made apple pie instead.
The turkey wasn’t hard to find, but it was ridiculously small compared to the bird that’s always served at my house. And forget green bean casserole, I had to actually make the cream of mushroom using powdered mushroom soup and crème fresh. No Frenchs onions and even the beans were different.
Somehow everything worked out and everybody ate and ate heartily. Apparently everyone was impressed with the food and I just didn’t have the heart to tell them that mine was the microwaveable version of a real Thanksgiving dinner.
But it was nice, and somehow everyone seemed content. All the kids were fascinated and appalled at the turkey heart and neck that I had pulled out once the bird was unfrozen. I was going to tell them that it was tradition to eat this as well, but it might have scared them too much.
Kalkon (Cal-coon) Turkey
3 comments:
wow, that must've taken a lot of effort. too bad you couldn't find the pumpkin, that's a big part of thanksgiving dinner! but it's good you got to show your Swedish family some American culture
hey, i just wanted to let you know, i was bored today, and i found this website called radiotime.com and if you go on there and Search for "By Location" you can get radio stations from all over the world through the Internet, in all different languages. not to mention you can get local radio stations too, i'm actually listening to 89.3 as i'm typing this to you. i thought it was pretty cool, maybe you would too. okay, ttyl
hey! how're things over in sweden? i hope you've gotten your box from me in the mail by now; it should be there by now. i mailed it on December 19th and the lady at the post office said it would take 12-14 business days. it's been long enough. i know that my gift to you is kinda weird, but i thought maybe it would be practical. by the way, what is your screenname for AIM? justin told me he talks to you sometimes on AIM so maybe i can chat with you sometimes if you aren't busy. justin also told me yesterday at church that he talked to you on the phone a few days ago, that you said you got the package in the mail with the photo album in it. if that package came from brenda, which i'm assuming it did because she said she was gonna mail it to you, then the photo album came from me, if she didn't tell you. it, along with the clock, was originally your going-away gift, but since you didn't come to drama that last wednesday b4 you left in august, i couldn't give it to you. so i gave the album to brenda b/c she said she was going to mail it to you. so it seems it has eventually arrived in sweden, though about five months later! O well. things here in south carolina are going okay. school started back today, and i've already got a chemistry quiz on wed. and a test on fri. these are our last things before the final exam, which is next wednesday. after that, seven more school days, i'll be home-free in chemistry class! hooray! well, i'll ttyl, and by the way, in case you wanted to talk to me or anything my AIM screename is gingerale5551 and my e-mail account is gingerale5551@aim.com
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