So Thankful to Be Here!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration today with our host family and CMU professor. All of us student teachers woke up, watched a bit of the Thanksgiving parade and headed to the grocery store to prepare for our feast. We cooked for our host family because they take such good care of us every other day. It turned out surprisingly well, considering we were not even sure if we could buy a turkey in the Dominican Republic. I made pumpkin pies, and realized that they do not have measuring spoons or cups, so it was kind of a fun guessing game. Luckily, the pies turned out fine!

Groceries purchased at the supermarket located in the mall nearby.

So much good food!

The student teachers sitting at the kids table.

The whole family 🙂

So proud of my pies!

 

It was a lot of fun to celebrate Thanksgiving in another country, it turned out to be quite the adventure! We are so excited to be heading to Las Terrenas for the weekend. It will be great to relax on the beach some more and see another part of the island.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

Even though we are in a different country, we are still celebrating Thanksgiving just as we would at home! Our students celebrated at school today with a Thanksgiving brunch including all kinds of Dominican breakfast foods. (I have officially come to the conclusion that I do not like plantains, I think I’ve tried them in every form now.) I also taught government for the first time today, and I think that it went well! School is closed for the rest of the week for the holiday.

After school 4 of us student teachers stopped by a local colmado to hang out and discuss our weekend plans. Our professor even stopped by to chat. On our walk back home we stopped by the grocery store to pick up a turkey so that it could start thawing for our big feast tomorrow. I don’t know how much turkeys cost in the states, but 2500 pesos seemed like a lot! That’s almost $60! But we are trying to feed about 15 people. In addition to a delicious turkey, we are planning to make green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and more! I am so excited!

We are also planning to stick with our other various Thanksgiving day traditions such as running the Turkey Trot (not me, I don’t run) and eating Lucky Charms while watching the Macy’s Parade (that’s my plan).

Tonight we are going to see a Dominican ballet, which should be very interesting. I hear that it is not like a ballet we would go to in the U.S., so I’m not really sure what to expect.