Thanksgiving Break

For foreign students in the United States, Thanksgiving doesn't mean family gathering because most of our family members are living back in China. Instead, we spend our Thanksgiving with our friends.

For the last few Thanksgivings, my friends and I spent whole night on Black Friday shopping at outlets such as Woodbury near Boston. These were such horrible experiences to me because it was raining every time when we were shopping, and temperature was below zero, and it was such crowded. I bet more than half of the crowds were Chinese because you can see and hear people talking Chinese everywhere. Chinese people like to shop I guess, especially when those luxury brands are on sale, some of us are just addicted to brands...

I have to say it is phenomenon that is happening among Chinese today, some of them are just buying those brands no matter how it looks when they wear them. It is kind of shallow that some of Chinese are focusing too much on materials instead of spiritual nowadays. I hope the situation would improve someday in the future.

So for this Thanksgiving, we rent a big house in Maine near the the Sunday River Resort. It is a huge place for skiing and snowboarding. We had a really wonderful time there. We have nine people living in that house during Thanksgiving and in that time period, we were just like a family, we cook, we drink, we party, we chat and laugh.