Namibian Thanksgiving

This year the holiday of Thanksgiving coincided with the last week of our semester at NETS, which is quite a hectic time for lecturers trying to get all the final assignments marked and getting grades turned in. Thus I decided against trying to host a Thanksgiving meal this year. Instead some friends of mine who had lived in the States invited me to join them and some Australian friends to celebrate Thanksgiving on Friday night.

One of their daughters had trolled pinterest for some festive decoration ideas. They found both brined and normal turkeys (fresh from North Carolina!) and made up some salad, stuffing, gravy, some delicious crumbed squash kind of dish, and confetti cream corn dip. Then, as if that wasn't enough, pecan pie and chocolate ice cream pie for dessert! Truly a case where self-discipline and taste buds were battling.

After some nice talks about football and Australian rugby and all manner of other topics, we each shared some things that we're thankful for, then wrapped up the evening playing board games. It's great having a good Christian community here that shares things like home, family and holidays. That's one thing I'm very thankful for. :)