Americans Prepare for Thanksgiving Overseas
The holiday season is upon us and that includes expats too. Just because you have landed in a new country surrounded by anything from palm trees to a different language doesn’t mean you have to give up on tradition. If anything it could become a great cross cultural experience. It might just take a little planning to find the Turkey. “The first year that my asking the meat and poultry counter of my local supermarket if I could order a whole turkey set off a flurry of discussion. The woman at the counter had to call the manager; the manager had to call the distributor; the distributor had to call the slaughterhouse. But in the end I got my turkey. So each year we sit down to a turkey with stuffing made following my husband’s grandmother’s recipe, to sweet potatoes that our friends make according to their family’s tradition. The apple pie recipe also comes from grandma, and the pumpkin pie tastes just like it was made by our friend’s mother. In place of cranberry sauce we serve a cranberry kugel.”
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Veterans Day at Home or Abroad
For expats living in the US or certain parts of Europe (UK, France) yesterday marked the celebration of Veterans Day. Veterans Day depending what country you are in can also be called Armistice and Remembrance Day and was first celebrated to honor the end of WWI. It is often marked by the selling of pins that look poppies. With expats living around the world including expat military living overseas, it can be easy to forget what the day is all about. “Veterans Day used to be another excuse for me to go shopping. But since I married into the military eight years ago, Veterans Day has become an opportunity to speak to elementary-school classes about military service members and what they do… It’s more than I knew about service members when I was growing up. I was born in Madison, Wis., in 1969, and some of the first photos of my mother and me capture her pushing my stroller in antiwar rallies up and down the streets of that university town. In our family, there was no antagonism toward the military, simply ignorance. Until I was a young adult, I knew no one who had served — no family members, teachers or neighbors. So I had many misconceptions. I thought that service members were robots who did what they were told, their wives were unambitious (at best) and their children were sad nomads.”
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