HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
With thankfulness in our hearts, we were able to celebrate Thanksgiving with Canadians this year!! There are 2 other Canucks on the campus, so with our families we ended up being 12 around the table.
With thankfulness in our hearts, we were able to celebrate Thanksgiving with Canadians this year!! There are 2 other Canucks on the campus, so with our families we ended up being 12 around the table.
Steve, who is in his 2nd year of working in our kitchen - continually produces lots of yummy meals with a smile - brave woman, I am, inviting him for a meal. Being multigifted gifted, we also find him in the classroom from time to time. Although he spent most of his life in South American, his mom is Canadian and that is where he was born. Come on over Steve with your wife and 4 kids.Cindy grew up in Montreal, met her Dutch husband in the States and has been living in the Netherlands the last 4 years. Now they are both students here. Great - they and their 2 children qualify too!
After singing our national anthem together around the piano (I was pleasantly surprised how well the other 9 did) we found seats around our extended table and began to enjoy the turkey and trimmings. Ranging in age from 5 months to 59 years, it sure resembled a big family. We are so thankful that it worked out, and we had that time together. God has blessed us abundantly with family, friends, good health and best of all a personal relationship with Him. Why wouldn’t we want to take time to thank Him?
After singing our national anthem together around the piano (I was pleasantly surprised how well the other 9 did) we found seats around our extended table and began to enjoy the turkey and trimmings. Ranging in age from 5 months to 59 years, it sure resembled a big family. We are so thankful that it worked out, and we had that time together. God has blessed us abundantly with family, friends, good health and best of all a personal relationship with Him. Why wouldn’t we want to take time to thank Him?Our celebration needed to be squeezed in-between work detail (which ended at 5:15) and the fellowship groups (which begin at 7:00), but it worked out fine, since being good Canadians, we began on time and made the most of the couple of hours we had together.
Monday night is also the evening we get together with the Volunteers - so we soon were on our way to our next activity too. We thought this would be good timing for a social night. We ended up in the bowling alley and those young people, bless them, allowed Ragnar to win one of the games.
Then we went on for a cup of coffee and most of them choose ice cream to go with it. The waiter remembered us, and asked us if we had been there this time last year? Wow - what a memory - or I wonder what kind of impression we had left?!?!
Monday night is also the evening we get together with the Volunteers - so we soon were on our way to our next activity too. We thought this would be good timing for a social night. We ended up in the bowling alley and those young people, bless them, allowed Ragnar to win one of the games. 
Then we went on for a cup of coffee and most of them choose ice cream to go with it. The waiter remembered us, and asked us if we had been there this time last year? Wow - what a memory - or I wonder what kind of impression we had left?!?! 
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