Thanksgiving

Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving.

Remembering my first Thanksgiving (and the only one for now): it was a great moment spent with friends in Singapore, thank you Emma and Jamie!

This year is another special one since it is the first in the US. I may well stay home or go hiking… cautiously because it looks like the weather will turn to ice and snow, cool! I’ll get a holiday anyway and tell you more tomorrow evening, maybe I’ll write a “Thanksgiving – part 2”!

Thanksgiving was a day of wishes, prayers, sharing meals and friendship. Around me colleagues are definitely spending that day with their family. I was pleasantly surprised that not many of them mentioned the famous Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Because it looks like it is a BIG deal! We are anyway entering the “holiday season” as it is called here…. and I am sure I’ll write more about that consumerism.

A propos*: I announce here officially that I am experimenting during the several months I will be living alone: I will not only try to be vegan, but also tend to be zero waste: buy the minimum, refuse plastic and other non recyclable packaging as much as I can, prefer second hand shops, and live with what I need, only. I hope I’ll post soon about my new habits. That will be hard because I didn’t bring much in my luggage. I admit, today I received a hair dryer and a hand blender, shipped by Amazon. I really tried hard to find them in the second hand shop, scrolled the local Barter and Swap Facebook page everyday, actually brought my hair dryer from Asia but then I realized that it had a different voltage!! The cold weather and my new vegan diet are calling for soups, so a blender was a must. But I promised myself that I will try hard to reduce my footprints.

Happy Thanksgiving!

P.S. And now I realize that I missed to buy the special Thanksgiving pie…. I’ll try next year!

* “A propos” in french, can be translated by “by the way”.