HAPPY BELATED TURKEY DAY FROM TURKEY

First off, I want to apologize to my mom and everyone else for not blogging for a really long time even though I do not think that blogging is half bad. But I am still having a wonderful time in Turkey, even though I miss everyone in America. My long break from blogging is why this post is so long and I would recommend reading it in stages because if not you could potentially get bored and pass out.

On Thursday, one of my really great friends and I decided that we wanted to make a pie. She is also an exchange student, from Mexico, but she is fluent in English so we speak English together. We went to the store to see if we could find pumpkin, and we thought we did, which was really exciting, as you can probably imagine, because you probably love pumpkin pie, and if not I am confused because pumpkin pie is one of the best creations ever.

Anyways, we bought a bunch of slices of something orange that looked like pumpkin and smelled like pumpkin. Then we took it home and baked it until it was soft. Then we started to mash it, only to realize that we bought spaghetti squash and not pumpkin. At first I was extremely dissappointed and considered bursting into tears. Not really, but sort of. The rest of the pie ingredients were already mixed up, and we had three cups of spaghetti squash sitting in front of us, and the next thing we knew, we had made a spaghetti squash pie. I would like to say that it was delicious and that the moral of this story is to never give up, but the pie crust was uneven, and the texture was weird, and to be perfectly honest, the pie was a complete and total failure. And that was my Thanksgiving!

Today is Teacher's Day, which is something that isn't really celebrated in America, but it's a big deal here, as I think it should be. Yesterday at school everyone wrote something about teachers on a piece of paper, and then we hung it up on the board for our teacher's to read. We also had an assembly for our teachers, which I enjoyed because for once I knew what was going on half the time.

I can tell that my Turkish is improving now bec'tause the past few days I have been able to speak to my friends at school entirely in Turkish, about things like our mutual hatred of Gangnam Style. I'm also learning a lot of slang which is my favorite because it makes me seem like I know a lot more than I do. Yesterday, in honor of Teacher's Day my Turkish friend told me to kiss my teachers at the end of the day and say Eyvallah, which means like thank you. She told me also to do it to teachers that I don't even have, which sounded awkward to me, but it really wasn't, and I told myself I wouldn't say YOLO on my blog, but YOLO. Anyways, they all thought it was hilarious and they were also really surprised that I knew what that meant. Which happens a lot.

Today my friend from Idaho who lives like three hours from here was going to come, and we were going to have a big Thanksgiving celebration eating either KFC or Popeyes but he didn't and instead me and my friends took an hour long walk by the sea and had kebab and Starbucks.

Well I think that is all for now, and I will force myself to blog more, even though I am lazy. Also here is what I am thankful for this Thanksgiving: Google, my mom, my dad, my brother, my friends, all of my other family, Barack Obama, my cat, my house, my teachers, my Kindle Fire, my Tide To Go stain remover stick, Turkey, food, America, www.Twitter.com, music, books, and 30 Rock, but not in that order.