Happy What??
First things first. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE. I hope that everyone stateside is living it up with their families. I also want to apologize for not writing more but I have a dynamite excuse. My parents were in country and I got to play tour guide. It pains me to report that I wasn´t able to send them home without getting sick from the food, but I tried my best.
So today I found out one of the hardest aspects of living in a foreign country. While Christmas decorations blanket every square inch of town since three weeks ago, there is absolutely no mention of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Pilgrims, Holidays, or Dinners with families. Nothin nathan nada. And you know what?? It is mildly freaking me out.
Obviously there is zero reason for Ecuador to celebrate Thanksgiving, so please dont think that this is causing my anxiety. It´s more that I think we as Americans build up internal stores of needing family time, and that this need to see and be with your family becomes super important at the times of the year countries have designated as holidays. Anyway on this fourth day of November I find myself wishing that everyone was in the holiday spirit, because I kind of feel like being in the holiday spirit right now. Certainly I could be suffering from a severe case of the power of suggestion, but then again it really does seem like something deeper than that. Talking to my family on the phone was almost bizarre, because I am here celebrating nothing bigger than the fact that I got out of bed, while everyone else dear to me is (hopefully) getting down to business with some serious tryptophan.
Things aren´t actually completely exempt. There is an Ecuadorian restaurant type called Parillada, which is basically ¨Eat here if you are a carnivore.¨ Parillada is piles of a shmorgezboard of meat with some potatoes dumped with a spicy delicious sauce called ahi. I could probably eat Parillada every day of the week, but even better than Parillada is SUPERParillada, which is the name of the restaurant in which I will be dining my Thanksgiving dinner in about thirty minutes. I must admit that I think adding Super to things is outstanding-as long as you say ¨Super¨the Ecuadorian way: Soopare! (rhymes with you there). Why have Chinese Food when you can have SUPERChinese food, or SUPERbutter, or SUPERSuperCuts.
We also are firing up a good old fashioned Pot Luck dinner in Quito on Saturday. I cannot wait. I am in charge of Mashed Potatoes. Never made them before in my life. All I know is that I can mash a potato with the best of them.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!
So today I found out one of the hardest aspects of living in a foreign country. While Christmas decorations blanket every square inch of town since three weeks ago, there is absolutely no mention of Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Pilgrims, Holidays, or Dinners with families. Nothin nathan nada. And you know what?? It is mildly freaking me out.
Obviously there is zero reason for Ecuador to celebrate Thanksgiving, so please dont think that this is causing my anxiety. It´s more that I think we as Americans build up internal stores of needing family time, and that this need to see and be with your family becomes super important at the times of the year countries have designated as holidays. Anyway on this fourth day of November I find myself wishing that everyone was in the holiday spirit, because I kind of feel like being in the holiday spirit right now. Certainly I could be suffering from a severe case of the power of suggestion, but then again it really does seem like something deeper than that. Talking to my family on the phone was almost bizarre, because I am here celebrating nothing bigger than the fact that I got out of bed, while everyone else dear to me is (hopefully) getting down to business with some serious tryptophan.
Things aren´t actually completely exempt. There is an Ecuadorian restaurant type called Parillada, which is basically ¨Eat here if you are a carnivore.¨ Parillada is piles of a shmorgezboard of meat with some potatoes dumped with a spicy delicious sauce called ahi. I could probably eat Parillada every day of the week, but even better than Parillada is SUPERParillada, which is the name of the restaurant in which I will be dining my Thanksgiving dinner in about thirty minutes. I must admit that I think adding Super to things is outstanding-as long as you say ¨Super¨the Ecuadorian way: Soopare! (rhymes with you there). Why have Chinese Food when you can have SUPERChinese food, or SUPERbutter, or SUPERSuperCuts.
We also are firing up a good old fashioned Pot Luck dinner in Quito on Saturday. I cannot wait. I am in charge of Mashed Potatoes. Never made them before in my life. All I know is that I can mash a potato with the best of them.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!
posted by ecuadortraveler at 4:23 PM
2 Comments:
hey bro, happy thanksgiving to you. thanks for the email. and to think, this time last year we were playing frisbee golf and enjoying your mom's exceptional cooking skills. thinking of that makes me miss you guys even more. since i guess you've been busy, i'll fill you in on some american stuff you may have missed... the "biggest bar night of the year" lived up to its name (in chicago at least), tony romo is the new troy aikman and borat impressions have officially replaced napolean dynomite impressions in the pop culture lexicon.
miss ya bud,
Donny
p.s. what's the address for Ally's blog?
Whattup D, Thanks for the noticias. Who the fuck is Tony Romo. Can´t really believe that someone named Romo is actually dominating. It also seems like I have some serious catching up to do in the pop culture department. As for ally´s blog check out allyinecuador I think that´s where she´s at. Take care big guy.
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