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When is Thanksgiving?
We had a thanksgiving dinner last night. Keren is the event planner, saw an ad for a turkey meal from the Marriot and put two and two together and made thanksgiving. Keren enjoys hosting dinner parties back home so went at this with military precision. If you check out earlier entries in my blog you’ll have seen a photo of an al hitmi apartment. Keren lives on the second floor in an 01 which is the mirror image of my pokey little place. She organized this dinner party for 10 people. So space and resources are hard to come by. Now you may also recall the limited items we have in our apartments. Some of us have a 4 piece dinner set (not necessarily matching). Some have 1 cup, plate and bowl. Keren went all out and bought a 12 piece dinner set and then followed it up with matching glasses (3 per person), table cloths and napkins. Table cloths were problematic as everything here is embroidered and colourful. 
So a couple of white sheets did the trick. So we have this amazing meal with fantastic table setting. Keren leaves the end of December so someone will end up with the kit for the next one I suppose. Now what happens at Thanksgiving is that people get together and give thanks to others. This was organized where we were given a card with someone’s name on it to write on. This had its challenges as I didn’t know many of the people well enough to write a thank you card. Now all the cards were colour coded (refer to previous entry about me being green) So the photos are of the card and message I got which was really cool. What was great to watch was that secretly Anne had organized for everyone to make an extra card for Keren as she had gone to a lot of trouble organizing the event. From the comments it was clear that she has obviously touched many of their lives with her generosity and support and it is truly valued by people who find themselves dumped in the sandpit.
We had a thanksgiving dinner last night. Keren is the event planner, saw an ad for a turkey meal from the Marriot and put two and two together and made thanksgiving. Keren enjoys hosting dinner parties back home so went at this with military precision. If you check out earlier entries in my blog you’ll have seen a photo of an al hitmi apartment. Keren lives on the second floor in an 01 which is the mirror image of my pokey little place. She organized this dinner party for 10 people. So space and resources are hard to come by. Now you may also recall the limited items we have in our apartments. Some of us have a 4 piece dinner set (not necessarily matching). Some have 1 cup, plate and bowl. Keren went all out and bought a 12 piece dinner set and then followed it up with matching glasses (3 per person), table cloths and napkins. Table cloths were problematic as everything here is embroidered and colourful. 
So a couple of white sheets did the trick. So we have this amazing meal with fantastic table setting. Keren leaves the end of December so someone will end up with the kit for the next one I suppose. Now what happens at Thanksgiving is that people get together and give thanks to others. This was organized where we were given a card with someone’s name on it to write on. This had its challenges as I didn’t know many of the people well enough to write a thank you card. Now all the cards were colour coded (refer to previous entry about me being green) So the photos are of the card and message I got which was really cool. What was great to watch was that secretly Anne had organized for everyone to make an extra card for Keren as she had gone to a lot of trouble organizing the event. From the comments it was clear that she has obviously touched many of their lives with her generosity and support and it is truly valued by people who find themselves dumped in the sandpit.
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