This Thanksgiving was the first Thanksgiving in my 21 years of life that I've spent away from my family. I was a little upset about this, as was most everyone else in my program. So, as soon as my friend Jordan invited me to a Thanksgiving dinner with her visiting family (basically a host family from Denmark but you don't live with them) I jumped at the offer. I was thrilled to have somewhere to go and some family and friends to share it with. And, as with most everything I do here, it was quite an experience.
What to expect at a Danish Thanksgiving:
1 roasted turkey
2 servings of "sweet potatoes" (potatoes cooked in butter and sugar)
1 host dad who picks you up from the train station wearing a Patriots jersey
1 giant bowl of a traditional Danish radish type dish
1 roasted duck
1 untouched bowl of turkey neck, heart and other internal organs
2 grandparents who speak a great variation of broken English
5 servings of a delicious homemade gravy
78 (approximately) toasts - the Danes like to drink
2 different types of stuffing - one for the duck and one for the turkey
1 banana cream pie that they were convinced was a very traditional Thanksgiving dessert because they saw Americans eating it on TV one day
1 giant vat of "lemon fromage" - a Danish dessert that tasted like lemon mousse or something
16 minutes spent watching a traditional Danish clip that's played every year on New Years
8 extremely full and drowsy people at the end of the night
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