happy thanksgiving!

real thanksgiving: 

while everyone back at home was relaxing and getting ready for the most amazing meal of the whole year, here i was, it was just another normal day and i of course had to go to school. i woke up around 11 and got ready for school. ate some lunch consisting of turkey and mlinci (see at least i had some turkey!). then went to the main square to meet up with a friend for coffee before we had to go to class. we ended up losing track of time and she was going to be late to her only class of the day, so instead of going she just came with me to my school for that class. i dont think thats actually allowed, but luckily i had an awesome teacher that period.. plus we brought cookies as a bribe. ;] after that class she left and i went to physics to take a test. well, it was a retest. see here i guess you aren’t allowed to get an F on a test or you fail the whole class or something like that. so if you fail a test you must retake it to get a better grade, even though both grades are recorded. yeah, i dont get it either, i just go with it. so since i failed my physics test i had to retake it. and believe it or not, i was even prepared this time and im pretty sure i got 3 of the 4 questions correct, which would get me a B. SCORE, right? nope, wrong. i wrote in pencil, not in pen, automatic FAIL. if it wasnt so ridiculous i would have been mad about that, but honestly i could do nothing but laugh. especially because the other exchange student did the exact same thing. which, like, youd think our teacher would then realize we clearly both didnt know about that nice little rule, since at home we arent allowed to write in pen, and therefor let it slide this one time. buuuut no. so now i get to retake my test a third time. :D :D :D physics<3

after school our croatians lessons were cancelled so i went back home, and went to bed. 

our thanksgiving: 

so, since obviously my thanksgiving was well, lets just say, less than traditional, i had to make up for it some way. me, and two other exchange students, emma and danielle decided we needed to bring some american culture to croatia. and by that i mean, we were going to attempt to cook an entire thanksgiving dinner. one of danielles friends was nice enough to offer us her house to cook in and so we cooked for her family, us and another friend totaling 10 people. sunday morning we woke up way to early after only a few hours of sleep and got the bus, tram, bus to andreas house to start cooking. we spend the entire day, about 5 or 6 hours in her kitchen making everything. and by everything i really mean : a whole turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, a pearl onion dish, baked potatoes, biscuits, muffins, and salad. and yeah, every one of them turned out absolutely completely delicious. seriously. [: not to mention, the day before, andrea's housekeeperish type lady, im not sure exactly, baked us two real american apple pies, that were the best pies i have had in a long time. well, at least since last thanksgiving. [; so we all sat down to eat, just hoping that everything had gone as planed, and the food was as good as we had told them it would be. which of course, it was. we all ate way to much. surprise there. and guess what? the stuffing, which they had never had before, was the biggest hit. mm yeah, stuffing. after relaxing and cleaning up we all eventually headed home to go to sleep, since the next week: morning school. :l




so theres my thanksgiving(s). 
not quite the whole: 'watch football and eat the food your mom/wife prepared' kind of day thats so typicially american.
but really, it was probably the best one of my life.
and that, is what im thankful for.