November 23, 2012
Our awesome PCVLs (Peace Corps Volunteer Leaders- they extend service for a year and work part time for PC and help with training) organized an amazing Thanksgiving dinner at this great house in town. We all found our ways into town and I spent the day with Sean, Dominica and our white friend Justin (his family has a business here) cooking. It was really cool to be able to share the day with people and we made sure we didn’t half-ass the menu either- we had turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, apple and pumpkin pie and the best gravy I have ever tasted (made by Mark as an after thought). There was even the lovely family turmoil that the holidays always bring out thanks to Sean and Dominica’s bickering. Yes, it was truly a wonderful spectacle. After dinner we all had some drinks and played a charades type game (idea brought to us by Mandy, who is the queen of all camp type games). We all stayed up until 4 am, mostly because Dominica caught a second wind and wanted to see the sunrise, which in hindsight was a terrible idea because it just meant we kept drinking. It was really awesome to be with people on a day that might have been really hard to get through otherwise, it gives me confidence in this whole experience and reminds me that sometimes it is nice (and necessary) to be palangi sometimes.
the amazing view from the house we were able to use for a feast.
a little food prep. Sean, Dominica and Justin deciding how to make the fried onions to go on the green bean casserole
Sean doing the honors of carving the turkey
the feast. I should mention there was only one thing of cranberry sauce because the only place the sold them on the island was this America store (all their stuff is shipped from a Costco in the states, probably by a relative who lives there) and is outrageously over priced- 12:50 for a can of cranberries!
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