So many things I learned about thanksgiving just days before the actual holiday:
1. Thanksgiving is the most important holiday in the US where families and friends fly home to their home towns to be with their families.
2. The thanksgiving spread always include pumpkin pie.
3. It happens on the last Thursday of November.
4. It's the longest holiday in the US since you get both Thursday and Friday off. (well, some don't get Friday off...)
5. Plane ticket prices double.
6. Most stores are closed on Thursday. Just like during holy week back home.
7. Thanksgiving sale! It occurs at 5am on Friday and lasts only until 11am. Some stores carry over the discounts through Sunday. Some lower the discount rates in the afternoon while some wipe it off completely.
8. The NFL plays their major games just like what the NBA does on Christmas day.
Back home, Thanksgiving was just actually a time to stuff chicken with mom's great stuffing recipe and call it turkey. My bro and I pronounce it "Tar-key" for some reason.
I had thanksgiving this year with Tito Roger's family and some onshore people like Debbie, Chardi Bacardi, Jaye, Analou, Shay, Amy, Jon and Joahn. Damn, it was cold that night. Good thing I was able to bundle up. Earlier in the afternoon, I was suckered by the high afternoon sun which made me think of going to Grant Park and take pictures with just a shirt, jacket and jeans - no bonnets, no thermal shirts, no gloves. It was a stupid stupid stupid move as I was only able to reach Millenium park and froze. Going back, I had to make pit stops in White Hen and other open establishments just to thaw my hands and my nose. The Wacker-La Salle clock showed -7C. This is the first time the cold has actually prevented me from going somewhere.
Thanksgiving at Tito Roger's was cool and I had my first rice meal and first real dinner in November (long story...). So this was Thanksgiving all about... what a way to know all about what it means.
(clockwise from the left) me, Chardi, Tita Violy, Shay, Joahn, Amy, Debbie, Analou, Tito Roger, Jaye
I'm thankful for my friends and my family back home. I'm thankful for this career opportunity. I'm thankful for having great friends here, most of which I was only able to meet here. I'm thankful for the great office mates I have. I'm thankful for tito Roger and tita Violy who I hope to get to know more and spend more time with during my stay here. I'm thankful for the onshore people here - the GSPS girls, Glenn, Debbie and Chardi Bacardi. I'm thankful for Mags, my guardian angel in Manila. I'm thankful for Kat though she still has stories to tell. I'm thankful for Mahar, who talked me into getting into the thanksgiving season. I'm thankful for Gezelle, someone who I just met 2 months ago but already a close friend who teaches me a lot about life . I'm thankful for Ann, my shopping, grocery and pasyal partner. I'm thankful for Che for still resisting not to strangle me.
Thanks! :)
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