Thanksgiving

Giving Thanks For Tacos

November 26, 2010

in Daily Life, Holidays

Happy slightly belated Thanksgiving to all the USA people out there! And very, very belated Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends! I hope you all had lovely big dinners. The DH and I made tacos. Before you roll your eyes at my obvious lack of festival spirit, remember that I live in Beijing, China. Turkeys [...]

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Time to Be Thankful – TT#1

November 27, 2008

in Expat Life, Holidays, Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Things to be thankful for!** 1. I’m thankful that I have a roof over my head, raw concrete or not. 2. I’m thankful that I have a functioning toilet, squatter or not. 3. I’m thankful that I have access to food, with melamine or not. 4. I’m thankful that I have Internet, censored or [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving America!

November 23, 2006

in Daily Life, Holidays, Work

Once again I nearly forgot about this one. I couldn’t figure out why no one was emailing today. As you can imagine, Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing and gravy is pretty hard to come by in rural China and even more difficult to recreate in a hotel room. I did have my lunch today with some of [...]

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Happy American Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2005

in Daily Life, Food, Holidays, Shijiazhuang

To all my American readers: Happy Thanksgiving! Today I must have told at least 60 Chinese about the significance of this day. It is interesting story to tell the first time, but wears on you after a while. I felt like I was shortening the story each time. At the start of the day I [...]

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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

October 10, 2005

in Canada, Holidays

To all my Canadian friends ~ Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all enjoy the day and eat lots of good food! For those of you working today ~ yea! Time and a half!

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