two blogs in two days...i must be going crazy!!! but this one talks about thanksgiving...

so as you all know thanksgiving is an american holiday and not celebrated here in jolly old england. well at first i was kinda bummed about this cause i wouldnt be at home and i had to go to school. bummer. so school was normal and blah and then i went home and made some really sweet green bean casserole compliaments of meg for sending over the ingredients for it!!! (thanks again!!!) anyways my study abroad program put on a thanksgiving dinner for all the international students and they provided turkey, ham, stuffing, and mashed potatoes. it was up to bring the rest for our table (we were broken up into tables with 10 people on it). as you all might have thought i brought green bean casserole...which was a huge hit!!! i nailed it, awesome. but there was so many pies, and veggie trays, and more potatoes, corn, just everything you can think of. AND there was a center piece contest (which we all forgot about till like 2 hours before the dinner) anyways i put my most creative powers on it and this is what i came up with.... i made a pilgrim hat (at first i made a top hat cause i thought they were the same thing but then i googles a pilgrim hat and felt very silly for not remembering what they looked like. i personally blame abe lincoln, my fav president, for making the top hat so recognizable...but thats besides the point) that i put on top of an american flag which was attatched to a knife and then taped to plymoth rock (which is actually a cobblestone from prague). so needless to say i thought i was doing pretty good. and i figured if i had forgotten about the centerpiece competition other people would too and i would win. well i was wrong, one of my friends jenna made a last minute center piece, and tons of tables put lot of thought into them, with serious markers and paper mache (<----- is that how you spell that????)

but all in all dinner was good and VERY filling i ate a lot and actually did not feel too good afterwards, but it was a good first thanksgiving away from home. it could of gone horribly wrong...but all in all (except for having to go to school) it was a good one.

and real quick i went into central london today and we (my flatmates and i) went to the imperial war museum to see the holocaust exhibition (<---- by the way the one in washington dc is 1000x better than the one here, so if you ever get a chance you should go) but the one here is still really good. but we did that and then went to platform 9 3/4 at king's cross from harry potter that was pretty funny to see. it was cute they had half a cart being "pushed" through the platform. i guess though when filming the movie they actually did not use the actual king's cross station for the set, they wanted a prettier station (which makes sense its not really that cool). so that was fun to see and, yes we are all 20 and 21 and we are taking our pictures with it, and of course right after we left two little girls ran up to it very excited and we felt our age. oh well.

so that is all i really have to say... and here are some more pictures from prague that i couldnt seem to get to load last time. enjoy.

the first one is a sweatshirt that we found at an asian market (did i talk about this in my last blog? i cant remember...)

this is the picture that i was gonna put up here last time of the statue in old town square but it didnt work...but it does now, so...

its always fun playing on the trams when nobody else is on them this is amaya, me, and mary showing of our sweet skills...

and as you can see i am doing a pretty lame pose but i didnt know what else to do. but this is part of the lennon wall. and no not lenin the communist leader, which is what i thought at first, but a wall dedicated to john lennon. which i thought was cool. here is just one section and yours truly to gaze upon...