Thanksgiving Dinner [95th day] - Illinoispanda’s diary

Hi. It's Illinois Panda.

I'm writing this at the airport to depart for Boston in the morning tomorrow. I'm taking a trip to the East coast for Thanksgiving holiday week! I'll post blogs about the travel for these seven days from tomorrow. But, I'm gonna tell you about yesterday in today's blog because I'm hard-pushed by a pile of events I need to share with you. I went to a church to have Thanksgiving dinner.

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For Thanksgiving meal, you often eat turkey for celebrating. I ate a dish plate with turkey and a piece of apple pie. I learned some Thanksgiving cultures. One is a popcorn game. First, you grab as many popcorns as you want. Then, you speak out as many people you wanna be thankful for as the amount of popcorn you grabbed. Another is a message card. There is a card illustrated as a falling leaf. And you write the name of a person you appreciate the most this year and the reason you're thankful for him/her. I thought it's similar to tanabata (七夕), which is a Japanese custom that you write down your wishes on a piece of paper on the 7th of July.