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[temtsel.livejournal.com]

Ah, pardon me, but... what's Thanksgiving?

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[dr-sparkles.livejournal.com]

It's a time to celebrate the good things in your life. Usually, families will gather together and share a meal on the third Thursday of November.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

Oh. I - I'm sorry, I'm... new here. [She shifts to hold her sleeping son better.] I suppose the name should have been self-explanatory.

[dr-sparkles.livejournal.com]

[smiles kindly] It's quite all right. I gathered you weren't from America. My name is Carlisle. You are...?

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

My name is Temtselma. It's very good to meet you, Carlisle. Thank you for explaining to me.

[dr-sparkles.livejournal.com]

It's nice to meet you too, and you're welcome. American customs can seem strange at first.

[rabieslestrange.livejournal.com]

It's where you get together with your family, and you eat a lot of food, and thank the turkeys for helping the blokes with the funny hats that wanted to kill all the blokes with the feathers. [Worst person to ask, ever. He's not American, and he has a horrible sense of Muggle history.]

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, but I don't think I understood the last part of that.

[Because she couldn't have possibly heard that right.]

[rabieslestrange.livejournal.com]

Okay...so...

There were these men that came over on a boat, I think. From England, see? They hated England, because they were pricks, so they decided to go to America. When they got to America, there were these men with feathers in their hair. I think they were hippies, and they were all, 'Oi, you need food or you're going to die!' and the folks with the funny hats were like 'Give us your food then, Featherheads!' so they gave them some, but then the men with the hats were like 'What's with all the fuc---ah! ...sorry. What's with all the popcorn?' and the hippies were like, 'We don't eat meat!' So the funny hats found some turkeys, and the turkeys were everywhere, so they killed some and cooked them, but they didn't invite the hippies, because they don't eat meat. But the funny hats still took all the popcorn, right? So the hippies didn't have anything. Then they died from diseases.

I read it on Wikipedia, or something.

This is beautiful and I love you.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

Pricks? Hippies? Popcorn?

My English is terrible, apparently.

[amethyst-flames.livejournal.com]

((Here, have someone who is also relatively new to the US)) Thanksgiving? I am sorry - I have no clue. Apparently it is some festival like our l'action de grace.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

What's 'l'action de grace'? Are you new here, too? [So far the explanations she's gotten have just been confusing. Hopefully this conversation will involve less complex English.]

[amethyst-flames.livejournal.com]

It depends on your idea of new. I have lived here for almost a year, now - it surprises me more and more as it gets closer. But I do not know much about this American culture. L'action de grace - it is when we thank Dieu for all that he has done for us. And then eat some... ah... dinde. I am not sure of the English word.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

I've been here for almost a month. [She shifts the baby in her arms when he stirs in his sleep.] It's alright, my English isn't very good, either. You know more than I do. Where are you from originally?

[dr-sparkles.livejournal.com]

It's a time to celebrate the good things in your life. Usually, families will gather together and share a meal on the third Thursday of November.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

Oh. I - I'm sorry, I'm... new here. [She shifts to hold her sleeping son better.] I suppose the name should have been self-explanatory.

[dr-sparkles.livejournal.com]

[smiles kindly] It's quite all right. I gathered you weren't from America. My name is Carlisle. You are...?

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

My name is Temtselma. It's very good to meet you, Carlisle. Thank you for explaining to me.

[rabieslestrange.livejournal.com]

It's where you get together with your family, and you eat a lot of food, and thank the turkeys for helping the blokes with the funny hats that wanted to kill all the blokes with the feathers. [Worst person to ask, ever. He's not American, and he has a horrible sense of Muggle history.]

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, but I don't think I understood the last part of that.

[Because she couldn't have possibly heard that right.]

[rabieslestrange.livejournal.com]

Okay...so...

There were these men that came over on a boat, I think. From England, see? They hated England, because they were pricks, so they decided to go to America. When they got to America, there were these men with feathers in their hair. I think they were hippies, and they were all, 'Oi, you need food or you're going to die!' and the folks with the funny hats were like 'Give us your food then, Featherheads!' so they gave them some, but then the men with the hats were like 'What's with all the fuc---ah! ...sorry. What's with all the popcorn?' and the hippies were like, 'We don't eat meat!' So the funny hats found some turkeys, and the turkeys were everywhere, so they killed some and cooked them, but they didn't invite the hippies, because they don't eat meat. But the funny hats still took all the popcorn, right? So the hippies didn't have anything. Then they died from diseases.

I read it on Wikipedia, or something.

This is beautiful and I love you.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

Pricks? Hippies? Popcorn?

My English is terrible, apparently.

[amethyst-flames.livejournal.com]

((Here, have someone who is also relatively new to the US)) Thanksgiving? I am sorry - I have no clue. Apparently it is some festival like our l'action de grace.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

What's 'l'action de grace'? Are you new here, too? [So far the explanations she's gotten have just been confusing. Hopefully this conversation will involve less complex English.]

[amethyst-flames.livejournal.com]

It depends on your idea of new. I have lived here for almost a year, now - it surprises me more and more as it gets closer. But I do not know much about this American culture. L'action de grace - it is when we thank Dieu for all that he has done for us. And then eat some... ah... dinde. I am not sure of the English word.

[temtsel.livejournal.com]

I've been here for almost a month. [She shifts the baby in her arms when he stirs in his sleep.] It's alright, my English isn't very good, either. You know more than I do. Where are you from originally?