Happy Early Thanksgiving!

Tonight's Thanksgiving was so much fun! We ate all the typical American food in mass quantities. Turkey, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate cake, Green Beans (casserole, with bacon, and just plain beans), Sweet Potato Casserole, Hashbrown Casserole, Corn Casserole, 7 layer salad, bread, brownies, stuffing, dressing, gravy, homemade butter (made by Tiff, Karen, and I over 4 hours with a Jar). You know, all of it. Once we'd had about 3 towering platefuls we layed around to digest and chat among ourselves. By that point there was about 30 people, by the way. Jen's parents, our hosts, most of our teachers, and several of our friends or friends of our friends. Matt and Natalie's French suitemates were introduced to a lot of the forementioned foods for the first time, and sampled them with relative enthusiasm.
There was a lot of conversation. Natalie, our German teacher, spoke English to us for the first time. It was stranger than the German seemed when we first got here. It was our last class period today, and we're all going to miss it, but we plan to keep in touch.
I also met a girl who came over on the program a few years ago, met her boyfriend, and now goes back and forth between Murray and here fairly often. I found out that Mulligan, our history professor, grew up in Brooklyn and learned latin in school. He's never played football for a team, but as we found out in Haidplatz he's got a mean arm.
That's right, we played football in our cobblestone plaza. 4 on 4, two hand touch, with Mulligan as all time quarterback. My team lost (probably because 1/4 of the team wasn't really good at football, being all small and geeky and all), but it was fun. After the game we crawled back to the room for more dessert and more talk.
Just, wow, you know? I hate to put it so colloqually, but sometimes nothing else will do. It really was a good time, a nice mix of Americana with several of the Germans we've become friends with. I'd forgotten how good home cooked food can be, too. There are pics of that, also up whenever the server is.
Also of note, Blogger's now offered in 9 languages, including German! So for all you German readers out there (Natalie, you may be the only one), viel spass ("have fun" for you confused english speakers).
Happy Early Thanksgiving everyone!