This week I’ve been making hand “I’m thankful for…” turkeys with my students to share the traditions of Thanksgiving. A lot of the kids put their parents, grandparents, and pets. Some kids put things like their football (soccer ball), computer, etc. I got thinking if I really did one for myself what would my feathers be. Since this year Turkey Day falls on the 25th , I thought that 25 sounds like a good amount of feathers. So here I go the 25 things I’m thankful for this year in Ukraine (in no particular order):
1.My health.
2.Oreos arriving in Ukraine.
3.Awesome fellow PCVs.
4.My own baba-free Ukrainian flat.
5.The almost weekly letters I get from my dad about gas prices, weather, what he had for lunch or who he saw at church.
6.Becoming an aunt to the cutest Leo ever born.
7.My dysfunctional but fun and supportive family.
8.Having a four day weekend to celebrate turkey day.
9.The ability to communicate over the internet with people back home.
10.The ticket my sister bought me to come home for Christmas.
11.The fact that I’m 1 of 8,719 Peace Corps Volunteers.
12.Vitalik, a 6th former who was the biggest trouble maker last year who now is super interested in participating in class even if he isn’t very strong in English.
13.The jar of Skippy peanut butter sitting in my kitchen cupboard.
14.The lunch ladies at my school who are always nice to me and use the endearing ending on my name that means they like me.
15.Being an American and having opportunities that not every person in the world has.
16.Having Kimberly as my Peace Corps Guru.
17.The rest of the mail I get.
18.“Our Daily Bread” that my Grandma Schmidt sends to me every 3 months.
19.Kivertsi getting another volunteer in a couple of weeks at another school.
20.Slower pace of my Ukrainian life.
21.My cooking abilities slowly improving.
22.My huge ‘inner’ circle of amazing friends.
23.Having 4 non teacher, non student Ukrainian friends in Kivertsi.
24.The fact that Eat, Pray, Love has been released and I’ll get to watch it at Christmas with my sister.
25.Being blessed by God with a great life.
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