Giving Thanks

Day 96

            You all probably want to here about my many adventures in Italy and Spain. Well sorry about that, you should probably stop reading this if that’s what you’re looking for.  This post really has no significance, its just me trying to make myself believe that its really thanksgiving. And I’m really sititng in my office outside the EU. And I’m in work clothes. And its 9AM. I think every part of that sentence is against the law and probably some sort of sin.

            Thankfully, me and Rudolf went to breakfast this morning to “celebrate” thanksgiving before work. And later on my whole program is putting on an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner. It still can’t compare to the homemade cornbread southern dressing and mashed potatoes I would be eating at home, or the amount of TV/movies I would be watching…but hey, I’ve gotten to go  to nine countries in the past three months. So I’ll shut my mouth.

My dad always makes us go around the table at Thanksgiving and say one thing we are thankful for. And just because I am not with him this year doesn’t mean I’m not going to do that…in fact, if I get my way, tonight at dinner we will go around and say one thing we are thankful for.

So to add on to the tradition that my dad has started here are ten things I am thankful for this year on Thanksgiving:

1. I do not have to take public transportation at home and it doesn’t take me eight different forms of transportation to get from one place to another.

2. Ranch dressing. And Dr. Pepper. And Chipotle. I will be ever more gateful for you when I get home.  

3. I have three beautiful, loving roommates that have made my first time living in an apartment so memorable and so fun.

4. At home I just have to swipe a card in front of a door to get into my “home”. Here it takes three keys that are ancient looking and sometimes just decide to not work. So I am thankful for my prox. (Evangel term)

5. My mom, dad and sister who got to have one of the greatest weeks of my life with me and celebrate my dad being healthy again J

6.  Blue. I miss you more than anyone.

7. For Facebook, Skype, and IPhone’s that make me feel connected to and loved by the people that matter the most back home. All my shool friends, kanakuk friends, klife girls, evangel friends and more :) Thank you guys for being so kind and thinking of me over here! 

8. My Internship here because it has taught me so much and given me so much that I never expected J 

9.  My Aunt’s who read my blog every time I post it and who I look up to so much…they are such amazing examples of Godly women who can live life to its absolute fullest.  

10.  A God who is present all over the world and has shown himself to me in such intimate ways while abroad. He and I sure have had some laughs these past three months. I’m sure he giggles while he looks down on me trying to talk to foreigners and unknowingly imitating their accents. So thankful for that God who loves me unconditionally despite all of my failures and mistakes and has given me such a blessing by being here. 

Let us give thanks today! For our God is good and has given us so much to be thankful for!

Love

Bails