Yesterday we had 39 people come to our home for Canadian Thanksgiving to eat Turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potato, sweet potato casserole, carrots, rolls, coleslaw, gravy, pie, cake & Russian ice cream. We were sorry that one lady was not able to make it. It was a tight squeeze with that many people in our apartment, but everyone said that it was so amazing & they were so thankful that we were doing this for them (fellow Canadians.) Many were touched & the awesome thing was that I was greeted by many people at our apartment door:
"Hi. You must be Matt. We did not know who's house we were going to, but knew Canadian Thanksgiving was here. Please to meet you for the 1st time & thank-you for allowing us to come & celebrated with your family."
People came at 12 noon & left at 10pm last night. We were thankful that many of our guests helped wash all the plates, cups, spoons, forks, pots, pans, glasses for us as it would have been extremely difficult do wash alone. The cool thing was that after most of the Canadians had left we had a small group of Americans come to enjoy the leftovers.
Teresa, Esme, Kiel & I were/are really tired today. When the alarm went off this morning I begged that it was not not right. Kiel, Esme & Teresa slept in because they were so tired from yesterday. Mongolian language class this morning was so hard. All the Mongolian instructors/staff were laughing at me because nothing made sense & all I heard from them was "blah blah, blah blah & blah blah." The more I thought about Mongolian the harder & more often I yawned. They were laughing at me so hard & I was laughing with them because I couldn't believe how tired I was. I just got up from a 30 minute nap on Esme's bed in the sun & feel refreshed ready to continue on this beautiful, sunny, fall day in Упаанбаатар.