Canadian Thanksgiving

Sunday October 10th

Bernie dropped me to Karin and Rick’s in South Kensington and we went together to Grace’s on the other side of the city for Canadian Thanksgiving. Most of the seventeen exchangees and families were there and it was great to catch up. This was probably our last day together until the farewell dinner in November. At our first get-together in March we were all talking about how difficult it was settling in to our houses or schools or both. Here we all remarked how quickly the year had gone and our biggest worry was how we were going to ship home the amount of stuff we had all accumulated. Changing times. Rick said some nice words of thanksgiving and then they all sang ‘O Canada’ their national anthem. There were many moist eyes as memories of loved ones left behind came flooding back.

As last weekend, I chose to take the train rather than drive. I have put up some miles on the car as everywhere is so far away and it was great to be able to read and relax.