Turkey Day?

All of you Americans know that yesterday was Thanksgiving Day, the day that we all get up with nothing to do except eat, do the washing up, watch some football, sleep and make plans for the Christmas season. That is when you are in the U.S. Here in Oxford it is a little bit different. If I didn't know that Thanksgiving was a holiday being here I wouldn't have known that yesterday was a holiday. Turkey Day is not a big deal, last night late in the evening one person said happy Thanksgiving and then another girl said "Is it Thanksgiving" It's not that they aren't thankful, it's not that they don't like to eat (although they're not into pumpkin pie) it's just that they don't know about our little holiday. So anyway Rebecca and I had pizza twice on Thanksgiving, the second one having turkey on it. I savoured the bite of turkey off of her pizza, mine had ham, mushrooms and olives, not exactly late November material. But anyway we had a great time, the Pizza Express is a wonderful option (thanks Katherine), Oxford on a non-weekend night is managble, and now that we understand when the 4C bus comes to the bus stop we can get home without having to walk the whole 45 minutes home. After all of this moaning I now can tell you that I am leaving in about an hour to celebrate Thanksgiving of all things. Mary who is a teacher at our school is originally from Pennsylvania, and Dave another teacher is also from Pennsylvania, and then there are a couple of Canadians that are going to join us as we give thanks. Maybe they don't disregard Thanksgiving as much as I thought, I'm sure I'll be thinking that after the turkey, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, etc... I better get going the food is going to get cold. later
earl