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November 26, 2001
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope you all had a great holiday. It's important to take time to be grateful for all the blessings we have in life. I don't have room here to list all the things I am thankful for, but suffice it to say that God has blessed me richly with his love, with the love of my family, and the love of my friends. Without these things, I would be much less.
ESI did a wonderful thing for us - in the contracts they wrote up with our schools, they specified that we get a 4 day weekend for Thanksgiving. So even though no one else in this country celebrates Thanksgiving, we can still hold on to this little bit of our culture. For the long weekend, the whole ESI team in Hungary went to Nagy Szállo (Big Hotel) in Galyatetö. Galyatetö is a very small town about 2 hours north east of Budapest in the Matra mountains. It was beautiful there. The hotel is a wonderful old stone building on top of a mountain (a Hungarian mountain that is - which is kinda like a Michigan mountain). There was snow on the ground there and the trees were bare, so it looked more like Thanksgiving is supposed to look. We had a wonderful time hanging out, talking, eating, singing, eating, worshiping, eating, hiking, dancing, and eating. To make sure we got the correct food for Thanksgiving dinner, we gave the cooks our American recipes. We also had to import a few things - there are no cranberries in this country. It was delicious though, and the Hungarian cooks did a great job with our "weird" recipes. We also had a talent show one night that was spectacular! This group has talent. The show included: singing, dancing, humor, an international pop sensation, juggling flaming torches, professional wrestling, and more guitar players than you can count (It's crazy, about half the ESIers here can play guitar).
OK, It's bed time for me, but I just looked outside and it's snowing. I love it. Good night.
Posted by neal on November 26, 2001 11:25 PM