OK, the Brits don't celebrate Thanksgiving and they think it's purely an American holiday, but that's no reason to let the weekend pass by unnoticed! A lot of Canadians still mark the weekend by cooking up their own Thanksgiving feast and inviting fellow Canadians around.
In my last school, oddly enough an Australian teacher who had been teaching in the US with Canadians decided to have a big dinner on Thanksgiving weekend. She decorated her whole house with Canadian paraphanalia and invited Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians and my partner from Egypt -- it was the most multicultural Thanksgiving dinner I've ever been to. As the evening wore on and the drink was freely poured, we all discussed what Thanksgiving means to Canadians and how awesome the fall is in Canada.
So how do you celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK? Post a comment below!
There's a TimePlan teachers' social on this Fri at Garrick Arms in Leicester Square - free drink for all Cdns in honour of T-giving!
Posted by: Caleb | October 11, 2006 at 04:23 PM