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Claire Henocq and her Thanksgiving Break

During Thanksgiving break I was able to discover a lot about American culture. We celebrated Thanksgiving with a few friends of the family, it was a good gathering. Before the meal someone had to cut the traditional turkey and I'm the one who did it! Then everyone took their neighbor's hand and the mother said a prayer, it showed that lots of Americans are religious whereas in France we don't really pay attention to this.

On Black Friday we met friends and went shopping. Some shops were open on Thursday night so we shopped until midnight and woke up at 7 am on Friday to shop some more. It was a really good time, I had a lot of fun.

Arthur Petit enjoys his Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was really diverse for me. Attending three kinds of party was actually really interesting. First I went to one of my host's friends. They call it Friendsgiving. Basically they gathered between young people to have fun and play games. However, the real Thanksgiving was different. For lunch we went to a typical white American Thanksgiving where we ate a lot. I would say, though, that my favorite one was for dinner. My family welcomed not less than 70 persons from their family and friends. This huge party was a real great time of sharing where people met each other again after a long time. I mainly stayed with young persons but meeting so many Americans was really pleasing. I've never seen so much food in my life, I could not even taste everything. This friendly atmosphere was really different from French celebrations. Once more, the US is so very different. In one word I would describe my Thanksgiving as intriguing.

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