As spring stretches into summer days, we began our first austral Thanksgiving.
On Wednesday after I walked in the door, my wife surprised me with our own little Thanksgiving supper. 
On Thursday we went to the chargé d’affaires beautiful gardens to play table-hosts at a Thanksgiving feed for Fullbrighters of ever stripe and persuasion. Some 150 people showed, including those who were excited about their forthcoming foray into America, and those Americans studying in Chile who were excited about eating some familiar victuals with fellow Americans. We had a good time and met some interesting people. The Fullbright scholars are very intelligent and fun to get acquainted with. The US and Chile have pioneered a new agreement to double the size of the program next year, under the auspices of Foreign Minister Foxley.
I have never seen a dessert line form so quickly after the toasts and turkey dinner.
Later in the day, in a more intimate setting, the young and the restless gathered at a colleague's home for Thanksgiving dinner and good conversation.
My honey baked two wonderful pumpkin pies for dessert.
All in all, it was a very busy 24 hours, but a good one. I think we really did Thanksgiving justice. And calories don't count on Thanksgiving day, do they?! Right. Right??
On Thursday we went to the chargé d’affaires beautiful gardens to play table-hosts at a Thanksgiving feed for Fullbrighters of ever stripe and persuasion. Some 150 people showed, including those who were excited about their forthcoming foray into America, and those Americans studying in Chile who were excited about eating some familiar victuals with fellow Americans. We had a good time and met some interesting people. The Fullbright scholars are very intelligent and fun to get acquainted with. The US and Chile have pioneered a new agreement to double the size of the program next year, under the auspices of Foreign Minister Foxley.
I have never seen a dessert line form so quickly after the toasts and turkey dinner.Later in the day, in a more intimate setting, the young and the restless gathered at a colleague's home for Thanksgiving dinner and good conversation.My honey baked two wonderful pumpkin pies for dessert.All in all, it was a very busy 24 hours, but a good one. I think we really did Thanksgiving justice. And calories don't count on Thanksgiving day, do they?! Right. Right??
I'm really thankful for so many things this Thanksgiving, that I'm only going to shot-gun it. I'm thankful for a loving family, for a wonderful wife, for super nice and professional colleagues, a comfortable apartment, for the ability to call family for practically nothing on Skype, and the ability to receive the same, for health, happiness, a career in the Foreign Service, the thousands of hardworking and dedicated Foreign Service Officers around the globe who are laboring very hard to make a freer, more secure and propserous world, for my laptop that still works well, that Chrismas commercialism hasn't gotten out of control here yet, for all the good, kind people who have helped me along the way in life and been there for me. Most of all, I'm thankful for God's love and blessings.
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