Was it large and full of friends and family? No. Did we have the day off from teaching? No. So that's why it was a doubtful success. Regardless, we made it the best and tried not to focus too much on the fact that we weren't at home and that we miss everyone so freaking much.
I know you're all wondering about Thanksgiving dinner, so I'll include some pictures to give you a visual. Surprisingly, the restaurant did a great job trying to recreate a traditional, American meal. We were pleased, and it was great to eat ourselves into a food-induced coma.
For the second part of my blog posting entitled "Endings," Conan and I are trying not to get too swept up into the homesickness that all the goodbyes have created.
Our semester teaching at CWF has come to an end, and while we're staying, all of the good friends we've made here in Cambodia are leaving...heading home...spending Christmas and New Year's with friends and family...living the comfortable Western life. Sigh.
Don't get me wrong: we really do love our time here in Cambodia and Cambodia itself. It's truly an amazing country, but damn would we love to see our friends and family right now. It is what it is, though, and we have another three to four months left here before we head to Vietnam.
I will leave you with a few pictures from my class party and pictures of the four most amazing people we had a chance to know and who have now left us. I'm sure you're all sick of seeing pictures of them, so this is the last time, unless, of course, they come back to visit!
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