happy thanksgiving! (the third and final)

i had the pleasure of celebrating three thanksgivings this year! first korean, then canadian, and now american. i'm really feeling the love. so i realized that i never posted anything about korean thanksgiving. i'll get to that, but first, i offer a visual treat. a korean kindergarten's take on hand-tracing turkeys. does this remind anyone else of helen keller the musical?






after we were done making the turkeys, the kids asked me why we were even making turkeys at all. i forgot that that was something that i might have to explain to them! and my boss says she's not all that interested in eating turkey ever, to which peter guffawed something about the nasty things with eyeballs and bugs that they eat here. seriously rosie. it's just turkey! :)


then, last night, i had a real thanksgiving feast! there is one american kid at our school. anaka, the rock star in front of the christmas tree. a few of us gathered at her family's house to eat. and eat. and eat. it was fantastic. i even had biscuits and gravy! but not like grammy makes. and there was no broccoli-rice-cheese casserole, mom. (sigh)


so, chusok. the korean thanksgiving. our korean friend sunny invited us all over to eat good korean food and play korean cards. that was waaaay back in september or something. feels like forever. so this is a korean thanksgiving table set for four. and this was only the first round.



korean cards. very tiny, hard plastic things. i still couldn't tell you how to play. we also played gin rummy, which they call hula. but we played that game with "western" cards, of course.

and finally, the korean traditional dress: hanbok. the kids all dressed up and had a fun day playing games and eating good food stuffs.


of course, peter, niki, and i had no hanbok to speak of. so we made our own.



so here's wishing a lovely holiday weekend to all of you south of the canadian border. i hope it's tasty and fun and that you get lots and lots of sleep (megs).