This week is the American Thanksgiving holiday. We will eat rotisserie chicken and make pumpkin things from pumpkin, not cans (except the one can that came in my luggage months ago), and play baseball. We will not (thank goodness) drink pumpkin spice lattes.
What are you thankful for specifically about your sojourner life?
You do know it is okay to enjoy living abroad right? That it isn’t all loneliness and crying for the kids to come home and cross cultural blunders? That you can love it?
What do you love about it?
For example: I am thankful for French chocolate mousse tarts and Diwali celebrations and the smell of jasmine and the thwack-thwack-thwack of the neighbor preparing her breakfast batter every evening and a church community with people from Congo, Senegal, Korea, France, Britain, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, the USA, Burundi, Egypt, India, Djibouti, Madagascar, no dominant culture.