November is a great month full of fun and excitement: We are cooking and feasting, sleeping off our feast and watching football and parades on Thanksgiving; shopping on Black Friday, and decorating for Christmas (no tree or lights before Thanksgiving, please).
We will be celebrating our Thanksgiving Feast on Tuesday, November 18. We will be demonstrating how to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving turkey and several other traditional dishes. Bring your favorite feasting dish to share. We will begin eating at 11:30 and feast until we are full!
Please RSVP to me with a copy of your recipe to put in our Thanksgiving cookbook at indyintlfriends@gmail.com by Wednesday, November 12 or bring a paper copy to our classes by Thursday, November 13 so I can get the book made in time :)
Happy November! It's a great month.
Carolyn
We studied the story of the Samaritan woman at the well found in the Bible in John 4:1-26 during International Bible Study. Samaritans are distant relatives of the Jewish people. They are very familiar with God and look for the savior that was promised to all people. The Samaritans and the Jewish people were not We also read the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37); this story
To learn a little more about Thanksgiving history, International Friends completed two crossword puzzles: one about the first Thanksgiving and the other about turkeys (the most important part of Thanksgiving). Everyone got three sheets for "homework."
- Please write what you are thankful for...
- The Thanksgiving Fill In has many words often used when thinking about Thanksgiving.
- The answers to the Thanksgiving Challenge are: 1.a, 2.c, 3.a, 4.d, 5.b, 6.d, 7.b, 8.a, 9.b, 10.c
We are clipping coupons for the troops. We all get coupons in the mail, many that we never use. We can pass these to our military and their families to use to save their money. Saori told us that the stores that provide American products on the bases have coupons available for the shoppers to use to save money that come from people in the States who clip them and pass them along. Because of the distance, expired coupons are honored. This is a very small project for us that is a really big outcome for people far away. Please bring coupons for products. Store coupons (Bed Bath and Beyond, Michael's, etc.) and restaurant coupons can not be used.
At our Conversation class on Wednesday evening, we talked about the different terms for alcohol: booze, cordials, We talked about how to save foods or prepare new dishes from the large amounts we get from Costco. Any breads (bagels, muffins, croissants) can be frozen. Bagels can be sliced into thin circles and toasted in the oven to make chips to be stored in your pantry. Berries can be frozen whole (don't wash them and freeze them on a flat sheet; when they are frozen, store them in plastic bags) or pureed and frozen in ice cube trays. Dried fruits last forever! If you are looking for other ways to use them: you can bake cakes and muffins with them, you can stuff them into pork chops or a pork loin. You can heat them in wine with spices to make mulled wine (a traditional Christmas drink).
At our Conversation class on Wednesday evening, we talked about the different terms for alcohol: booze, cordials, We talked about how to save foods or prepare new dishes from the large amounts we get from Costco. Any breads (bagels, muffins, croissants) can be frozen. Bagels can be sliced into thin circles and toasted in the oven to make chips to be stored in your pantry. Berries can be frozen whole (don't wash them and freeze them on a flat sheet; when they are frozen, store them in plastic bags) or pureed and frozen in ice cube trays. Dried fruits last forever! If you are looking for other ways to use them: you can bake cakes and muffins with them, you can stuff them into pork chops or a pork loin. You can heat them in wine with spices to make mulled wine (a traditional Christmas drink).
International Friends, 10:30-12:00: Let's Talk About Veteran's Day
Join us as we talk about Veteran's Day in the United States. Why is this holiday important?
Conversation, 4:30-6:00: Let's talk about Thanksgiving, Schawans', taste tater tots, look at Pinterest, home cleaning and maintenance schedule tips, and all the other stuff we come up with!
Black Friday: the shopping day when stores finally see a profit for the year and their balance sheet move from the red column to black
RSVP: let me know if you are coming
parable: a story that is told to illustrate a lesson
clipping coupons: cut coupons out of the newspapers or circulars
troops: military
expired: past the date it is valid
honored: regarded with respect
pantry: cabinets that store dry goods
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