Update: Tuesday 3 Dec

Hello! I'm still alive! I hope you weren't worried. I know it's been a while but I haven't had a whole lot to say and I guess I just haven't been in the mood to write. I haven't been up to much of anything lately. It's been quiet. My roommates are as annoying as always, my school work is going as well as it ever is, there's just nothing eventful to report.

That said, last Saturday my friends and I made Thanksgiving dinner. It was originally Jennifer's idea, at the beginning of the summer she suggested that we celebrate American holidays, specifically 4th of July and Thanksgiving. For the first time I organized thanksgiving myself, and my first vegetarian Thanksgiving, it went really well. We had stuffing, mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, a salad, homemade dinner rolls that Jenn put together, green bean casserole that turned out really good considering I don't normally like green bean casserole, sweet potatoes that didn't cook very well but were still tasty, and baked macaroni and cheese because it sounded good and apparently that's a common thanksgiving food in some part of the US, so why not. Simona cooked a whole chicken (she didn't start early enough for a turkey) for the meat-eaters of the group (everyone but Jenn and I) and she ended up making a milk-based chicken gravy to go with it, and Tessa made us a delicious apple pie. We were only going to have regular (non-alcoholic) drinks but Jenn's father was joining us and wanted to make it nice so he ran to the store and bought some wine, and some Bailey's for dessert. We had pooled money, 7 euros apiece, to pay for the meal, and there was a little left over, so a couple people ran to the store for ice cream to go with our pie. Vanilla ice cream and cinnamon ice cream. I don't remember ever having seen cinnamon ice cream in the US and that's a shame because it was really good. So several hours after dinner we had apple pie, ice cream and Nespresso cappuccinos with Bailey's and whipped cream, and we sat around and played Tick for a while. We planned to have dinner ready at around 6 and ended up sitting down at the table around 7, which seems pretty good to me. It was a nice Thanksgiving. 

Now I have Christmas to look forward to. I have about a week and a half of classes remaining, and then less than a week before I leave for the US for Christmas. To see my mommy and daddy and sister and brother and… my cat and puppy. I didn't realize it was so close, I guess I had better start packing. I have so many things to do before I leave, agh.

Well, I have to go figure out what's for dinner. I will try not to take so long to write next time...