Thanksgiving in Kazakhstan

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is not celebrated here, but the Muslims had a national holiday on Friday so we got the day off of school. All the school staff met at the director's house on Saturday for a big Thanksgiving meal. There was not one turkey in the whole town of Aktau, so we had stuffed chicken instead. It was delicious! This is the sun going down over the Caspian Sea right outside my window.







I got to have Thanksgiving with one of my students. Her mom works at our school. Isn't she beautiful? I was going to take a picture of the whole gang, but we got so full that everyone left and I realized too late that I had forgotten to take pictures.

I forgot to take a picture of all my pies before they were eaten. One whole pie was already gone. I also made a carrot ring with creamed peas inside. Nobody had ever had a carrot ring and it was a very popular dish. My mom always made carrot ring with peas. I remember when I was little she made it one holiday and forgot to put the carrots in. We all still loved it!

I invited one of our staff over to my house to help make pies. She had never made a pie before and after her husband had tasted one of mine he wanted her to take pie lessons. Here she is enjoying the blackberry pie bowl.

She is rolling out the crust for the first time. She did a great job. Her 7 year old daughter took this picture of us. I wish I could keep my eyes open and take better pictures.