I was somewhat unsettled with the fact that for this year´s Thanksgiving I would be in Spain, and not with family and friends. This holiday truly is a beautiful one, not because you can pig out and stuff your gut as everyone else is, but rather the idea of being thankful for what you have in your life and sharing that sentiment with others during a family meal. What I have learned while being abroad is that there are little things in life that we take for granted every day, and when they are gone, you realize how special that one thing is to you. For example, a terrible example, peanut butter is not popular in Spain. Most of the time, people do not know what it is and those who are aware of it have no idea how it tastes. I missed this a lot, so I decided to splurge a little and buy the four euro peanut butter jar. In the end, I do not regret this decision at all.
My study abroad program put together a Thanksgiving dinner for us, and it turned out to be both bizarre and delicious at the same time. The strange thing was that we were served typical Spanish appetizers, but still tasty at the same time.
However, our main course came, and it turns out that they actually cooked a turkey for us (many of us were expecting chicken). It also included mashed potatoes, as you can see.
The dessert we had was both strange and somewhat appetizing. We believe it was some sort of sweet potato pie.
After eating, going to class and being able to concentrate the whole time was very difficult, but I still managed to learn, which has to be one of the most important skills one could have.
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