Thanksgiving was amazing! This is the first time I have ever hosted Thanksgiving, and the first time as a couple that we hosted a holiday. We cooked a turkey, dressing, vegetarian stuffing, green bean casserole, yams, homemade cranberry sauce, rainbow carrots, mashed potatoes, and a pumpkin cheesecake made from an actual pie pumpkin. Wow! Lots of work! We had 13 adults and one child come. Everyone brought something, even Filipino food. It was a huge feast and lasted over 5 hours!
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2 cups boiled, deboned, squeezed and fluffed halibut, 3/4 cup crisco, 3/4 cup evaporated milk, 2 cups salmonberries and 3/4 cup sugar. Mix by hand and add the berries last. My boyfriend went to Mountain Village for a board meeting. Because of weather, he was stuck there an extra three nights. First, it was snow and ice in our village. Then the weather was bad in his village. Then the wrestling team got out on the only plane (rest canceled for weather) but they could not fit my boyfriend and the board member on the plane so they made them wait an extra day. He finally made it home today but is sick.
We are hosting Thanksgiving! We are cooking a turkey and some sides, and a bunch of people are coming over. Hooray! I am so excited! Then we are having two separate reward brownie parties at our home for students. One for boys and one for girls (because 16 kids at once is to much and they like different types of movies). The volleyball team won their tournament and are going to State. There is currently a 100 person wrestling tournament going on here. Kids from all over flew in. Over 1000 matches. one shower at the Washeteria costs around $7. Yikes! I guess entire families sometimes shower together to save money. We were talking about personal space and the lack of it here. When you know everyone in the village, sleep 10 people in one bed, and shower in groups, there are no personal boundaries. Kids do not understand stranger danger or personal space. They have no issue coming up to me and hugging me, even if we have never met. They have no issue hugging teachers and just touching them in general. The personal bubble is hard to teach someone who has no idea.
One of the teachers who moved away last minute at the end of the school year left a little ten year old student very heart broken. He has still kept in contact with the boy and sends him presents. For his 11th birthday he mailed him a pinata full of candy. But the sweetest thing is this teacher and his girlfriend are flying the boy out o Idaho this summer and spending an entire month with him! They have activities planned for every day that are fun and educational. The boy's biggest dream is riding on a fire truck. It is so sweet, it makes me cry. Sometimes I wish we could take one of "our kids" and take him to Colorado, but anyone close enough to us is like 14, and I am unsure of ever taking on that kind of responsibility, especially when I only get 2 weeks at a time in Colorado or wherever. I applaud those who do take kids out of here and show them other parts of the country and life.
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