November 2023

Happy Friendsgiving!  This Thanksgiving we were away from our family in the States, but we did not miss out on all the traditions. We used this opportunity to invite some of our closest friends over to share in the American holiday (we would have invited all our friends if we had the room). We had a total of 10 friends come over to share a meal, play games, and make hand-turkey drawings. This is the third Thanksgiving Tony and I have spent together, but it was our first time hosting it. We had so much fun and hope to make it a yearly tradition. Being in Europe, it did look slightly different from a classic American Thanksgiving. For instance, it is nearly impossible to find a whole turkey here, so we had to settle for parts (turkey breasts, thighs, and legs), and the green bean casserole was made without the fried onions (arguably the best part). Luckily, Tony was able to bring back some traditional staples from his recent trip to America, like brown gravy and boxed stuffing!

This month I was able to invest in a friendship with someone Tony has studied with before. It was a girls' trip with my friend Anna to see the Christmas markets in Vienna. We window-shopped at several markets, enjoyed soup in a bread bowl, drank warm punch and hot chocolate, and closed our evening by getting foreign snacks we can’t easily find in the Czech Republic.