THANKSgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!  I wish I could just fly home for a day and celebrate it but there's always next year... and the next year...

Although nobody celebrates Thanksgiving here and it's odd not celebrating one of my favorite holidays, I still pulled through and had a good day.  I thought that today was gonna be a tough day and that I would of been a little homesick, but for some reason, that wasn't the case.
 Maybe it was because I didn't really realize that it was Thanksgiving because it just felt like a typical Thursday and nobody else brought it up.  But today I still want to take the time to think of everything I'm thankful for, especially the for the things that have taken place over the last couple of months.

 I'm thankful simply for having the opportunity to be here in Germany and that I've met some incredible people and lifelong friends that are helping me really get the "German experience."  As weird as it is being away from my family and friends during a holiday that is closely linked to being with loved ones, I don't feel like that feeling is missing (if you get what I mean.)  I have a wonderful host family who took me in and allow me to be a part of the family and friends from school and sports that have taken be under their wings and have let me hangout with them.  So in a way, I'm still surrounded by people I love.  My "German family."  And when I miss my family and friends back home, all I have to do is skype or snapchat them.  It's that easy.

So I hope everyone has a good Turkey day and eats lots and lots of food!  Eat some for me (it can be an excuse for you to eat a little more ;)