Thanksgiving

I enjoy spending Thanksgiving in another country.  It really puts everything in perspective of all we have to be grateful for.  This year we were blessed to have a chef visiting from Denver, Colorado, who prepared a lovely feast for us.  Noel owns a restaurant in Denver called Strings, and after sampling some of his talents, I would highly recommend it to anyone who might be in the Denver area.  Our Thanksgiving meal was traditional, with an Ethiopian flair - turkey, stuffing, roasted potatoes, gravy, cucumber and tomato salad, with injera and wat as well.  The turkeys, which were smaller than the customary American turkey, were imported all the way from Brazil!  Globalization at its best!  I'm currently reading The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, which comfirms the theory that technology and globalization are leveling the marketplace around the world.
In the afternoon I watched some of the kids at Project Mercy make glass beads.  The group from Denver have taught some of the young people here how to melt glass and make beautiful, colorful beads.  They create bracelets and heart pins, which are then sold in several venues around Denver.  The bracelets are now available online to purchase at the Cunningham Foundation's website: www.cunninghamfoundation.org  All of the proceeds go to Project Mercy.  It's really fun to watch the kids develop this skill and allow their creativity to blossom.
My Thanksgiving day ended with a massage given by one of the team members who is a massage therapist in Denver.  What a treat!  And now you know how much I suffer in Africa!