Stuff(ed)

Happy Belated Turkey Day to everyone! I hope you all had fun celebrating and eating yourselves to the point of incapacitation. Congrats Faye and Amber on finding a great place! We can all be thankful that y´all didn´t have to spend your Thanksgiving hiding from that reincarnated witch, Heidrun!

I spent my Thanksgiving day working, naturally, because here it is not a national holiday. I did, however, get to explain the story of Thanksgiving to some Germans, though, so that was kind of fun. In case you´re wondering, most Germans do recognize the holiday, even though they don´t celebrate it (yet, but give commercialization some time..j/k) and might not know the story behind it.

I did have a pretty fun evening. I met some new friends on Wednesday night who invited me over for dinner on Thursday-so though I didn´t have a traditional Thanksgiving, I did have a nice evening getting to know new friends and eating spaghetti. There were five of us altogether-the four roommates, Julia, Romi, Basti, and Daniel, and then me. All of them are students, two go to FSU here in Jena and two go to a different school nearby, but all of them study something called BWL, which is basically business economics.

By the way, when Daniel and I were watching the sauce while the two girls went to pick up their other roommate, he kept tasting it and saying something was missing. I suggested red wine, and he was like, "Really? I´ve never done that before." "You just can´t have sauce without red wine. It´s the key," I explained. I added some red wine and voila, the sauce was a huge hit. I have to give my dad credit for that one-he can make one mean sauce.

Anyhoo, hopefully I´ll get to spend some more time with them in the very short period I have left here. I can´t believe I only have about a month left!