Thanksgiving in Spain

My class after making our Turkeys!

First off, Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family back home!!!! We are realizing today just how thankful we are for this opportunity to study and teach here in Spain! I am back writing another post because I love Thanksgiving and was so excited about what Emilie and I were able to do today at school. We were lucky enough to be able and host an assembly for the entire P2 (first grade), P1 (Kindergarten) and EC 2 (Early Childhood/Preschool) classes. In this assembly the teachers asked us to talk a little bit about the holiday and the tradition seeing as it is not celebrated here in Spain. We were able to talk about our individual family traditions, such as my family starts the Christmas music on Thanksgiving day (don't worry mom and dad the tradition was carried on in my classroom today) and Emilie's family enjoys watching the parade together, along with the common Thanksgiving foods! The kids loved it and thought it was cool that we eat for a holiday and spend time with our family. They're favorite part, of course, was the idea of us eating pumpkin and apple pie after dinner! Fun Fact: Dessert for us is called Pudding in the UK!

The final Turkeys!

Continuing with the Thanksgiving celebration Emilie and I did a craft with our kids that involved them thinking of 5 things that they are grateful for and writing them on the feathers of the Turkey they were making. They enjoyed thinking of the 5 things and were very excited to go home and tell mum and dad all about the American Holiday of Thanksgiving. Finally to top it all off, I made the students and teachers mini apple pies to start off the day of feasting and they all loved them!

Emilie's class working on their Turkey crafts!

Finally, we were lucky enough that we had a couple of guests come visit and cook all day while we at school so we were all able to feast! A few of Emilie's friends from college are backpacking through Europe and they stopped in Spain. We invited them over so we could have a classic and lovely Thanksgiving meal together! It was amazing and there was so much food! We had 2 whole chickens, beans and bacon, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, bread, salad, wine and finally cake AND ice cream. That's a pretty good Spanish Thanksgiving if I do say so myself!

The crew and our Thanksgiving feast!

We hope you are all taking this time to remember all of the beautiful things you have in your lives and enjoying time with family! Happy Thanksgiving!!!!