Thanksgiving in China

Hello everyone sorry I have not posted very many new things on here recently but the truth is not much has happened until recently. Well as you know Thanksgiving was on Thursday and just because we are in China does not mean we cannot celebrate one of the most American of holidays. It was however difficult to get a turkey here though. In china most people eat Chicken or pork. So we had to special order our turkey from a local western food restaurant. We also had to have it cooked for us. Because in China most people do not use an oven. None of our apartments has an oven. Most of the time Chinese food is cooked on the stove top or fried in woks or things like that. We only had one microwave to use while cooking our Thanksgiving dinner. We ended up with about 5 different types of potato's So we had to pay the restaurant to cook and cut our turkey for us. Because we had to get two it got pretty expensive we got two turkeys cooked, cut and delivered with gravy for 960 Yuan($128). which probably is not too bad. We had all of the people in our program over and we invited some of our teachers and Chinese friends. It came out to 40-45 people. It was almost like being at the Burke family Thanksgiving just with out all the little kids running around. We ended up at the end of the night drinking beer and singing Christmas carols it was not quite like being home but it was pretty darn close. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!