technically it’s tomorrow but its monday in oz now. i actually celebrated it yesterday with the canada club. we had a big potluck turkey lunch with probably around 80 people. it was really good. i even brought a nutloaf so zac would have something to eat and tammy (the fuctions co-ordinator) was nice enough to make cute little signs to put on the food that was vegan for zac 8). there was pumpkin pie too!!! Very exicting. The only pumpkin pie I’ve had in oz, zac’s mom made for me a couple times on Christmas and Canadian thanksgiving (she does an amazing job at it, especially considering they don’t do pumpkins as pie here and she has no idea what its supposed to taste like—and she makes them vegan so zac will eat them to). we had a raffle and I won a t-shirt left over from canada’s team at the commonwealth games (the club got a lot of stuff from that, i think they finally got rid of it all yesterday) and some tim hortons coffee (mmmmmmm). i made the coffee this morning and its sooooooo good. i’ve never really even been that fond of timmy’s coffee (is that un-canadian of me?)—i’m not one of the expats that gets off the plane in canada and runs for the nearest tim hortons but the coffee was better than i remember (i mainly like them cuz they were the only coffee place open past 10pm in langley so that’s where we’d go for late nite coffees/study procrastination in university (probably the only place in the world where you can get a decent coffee and a donought for under $3 too).
i found out something new yesterday too—the first thanksgiving was actually celebrated in canada. I always just assumed it was an American thing and Canada just sort of adopted it and gave the holiday a different day but no— canada started it. it was a celebration of an abundant harvest. maybe I’ll make some tofurkey for dinner tonite if I feel up to going to the shops to get stuff to make for dinner after work (cuz it wouldn’t be thanksgiving if you didn’t eat thanksgiving food and leftovers for a week straight).
ha ha. i just read over everythign i wrote. there’s a good reason i never went on to be an english major or minor in university. i LOVE (and definitely overuse) parentheses and I write very run-on sentances. i like it that way (and most of my psych profs didn’t care about my overuse of parentheses either but I tried to cut down on the run-ons in papers).
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