Our Flickas on Thanksgiving Day



Our girls learned a new joke concerning Thanksgiving Day here:
Q. What do you call Thanksgiving in Sweden?
A. Thursday!
Our morning was just like a regular Thursday morning here:  Wes worked on classwork and I headed off to my English Conversation group...E and M really wanted to meet my students to chat and Anne came along as well.  Our conversation included "Black Friday" here vs. there. My students were rather amazed with the "Doorbuster Deals" one might get by getting up super early to stand in line for limited offers that appeared too good to be true. It was really fun to have them in class with us!
Before class was fun, too, as I let them test out (quietly, of course!) the drum set in my classroom.
 
Here are the girls with some of my students, three were absent on this day.
 I'm so thankful to have met each one of these special young adults!

As it's a regular Thursday in Sweden, our gang headed out to 
And just as we are, the gang was most impressed with this Second Hand store all decked out with Christmas deals galore...



Just walk away, just walk away, just walk away, just walk away...
this season is doing me in for Swedish Jul-tide!!!
By the time we returned from our thrifting adventure, the clock indicated we needed to get ready for the SVF Thanksgiving celebration.  Isn't it wonderful our host school prepares a turkey dinner for its students in all areas of studies?  We think so, too.

The meal is served buffet style.

No seats are reserved for participants; we had a Music Line student sitting with us.
Albin plays flute, saxophone and is learning piano.  He's also a vocalist.

It was so special we could be with family today when we are so, so many miles from home.
We missed the rest of you; please know that!



Following our delicious meal, we headed to the auditorium downstairs for a service of Thanksgiving.
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Students were readers, the SVF Music Line performed and the NPU Provost, Michael Emerson, gave a message about our Thanksgiving history and some food traditions such as marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes and "salad" with marshmallows in the mixture.  Audible groans could be heard from the Swedish students in the audience about this curious culinary choice.


Of course, his message also covered that which was not culinary.
A
 Litany of Thanksgiving
responsive reading closed with these words:
Help us accept your blessings and your challenges with gratitude, and may we find that through your grace,
Blessings become challenges and challenges become blessings.
 
 Then the College Line and their guests (many had family visiting from America), headed off for dessert.  It wasn't the traditional pumpkin pie - it was a pumpkin-type cake with cream cheese frosting that reminded a lot of us of carrot cake.  It was delicious!

E and M thoroughly enjoyed themselves in the company of the students here! 

Especially with Katie from Covenant Point!!

I hope all of you readers had a lovely Thanksgiving, too.
Make that a lovely Thursday in case you are a resident of this lovely country!

 












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