Drunken Festivals

Did u enjoy the video from previous post? I saw it so many times because I just cant resist it.

anyhoo, lemme write about American Thanksgiving. It is a harvest festival - time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is usually celebrated on fourth thursday of November.

I have never celebrated thxgiving in Asia but I have since I came here, because I want to learn more about western culture (caugh caugh, More excuse to party).

This year, me and my roomy hosted a party at our place. We prepared bunch of traditional thanksgiving meal such as TURKEY, ham, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, mush potatoes, gravy, ... etc etc and ofcoarse, SANGRIA. Preparation started the night before the thanksgiving. My friend came over to put stuffing in the turkey, me and my roomy made sangria.

How to make Sangria:

1 bottle of wine, 2 cups of soda, 1tbs of sugar, 1 shot of gin/brandy/triple sec, fruits (apple, orange, grape, berries, whatever u can find)

we end up using 18 bottles of wines. yes, i am serious, and it was so worth it!

Turkey and Ham stayed in the oven for long long time. After hours & hours, it looked so perfect to eat ;D

Two of my friends and I dressed in thanksgiving color: orange and brown. lol. Approximately 20 people ended up coming to the party, and it was a blast. I had so much fun that day.

Friday is usually the "Recovery Period". Everyone is hangover and tired from thanksgiving. Our meal started with Thanksgiving left over food, and the same day, my roomy's guy friends from Germany came over to visit. Also Vietnamese girls from Boston. So we had 5 people sleeping over in our apartment for the weekend. No time to be hang over!!

On Saturday, I had my birthday party at small lounge in Lower East Side Manhattan called White Rabbit. This lounge was literally tofu-cube size, but I had lots of fun with all my friends :) I don't need a big party. I don't need birthday cake or presents. As long as I have my close friends to celebrate birthday with me, I am happiest girl on earth.

In America, People buy drinks as a gift. I dont know how many times I heard "Let me buy you a drink". My friends kept on feeding me alcohol. lol. After the lounging and going home, My friends surprised me with bday cake and presents from victoria's secret. I was so surprised (because who can predict getting bday cake and present after lounging and after goin home and when the night was about to be over). Seriously, I was so touched. Omg, i love them all. I also had birthday lunch on Sunday with my friends at time square. Place is called Bubba Gump and it is somehow related to the movie, Forrest Gump. Seafood was really good. The waiters also sang for me bday song and made me dance along with the song, which was pretty emberassing. haha.

After the bday party, no time to be hang over again. I went to school in Morning, and I went sight seeing for two days with the German boys (I should call them Men because they are older than me). It's so amusing how they get fascinated about every little thing and places of NYC. I love their positive energy. They can enjoy anything. I had so much fun hanging out with them :) Now I have place to visit in Germany!!

Now I finally get some time alone, but I still dont get recovery period, because of the Final exams and Term papers. My weekend plan is to spend the entire day and night at library. How sad. I am also broke. Where is Money Tree? I need a giving tree that can give me money.