Kate’s Quests

Since we couldn’t go home to see family for Thanksgiving, I invited my two seven year old students and their moms over (Kayo and Tomoko). Since their lesson is on Thursday anyway, it seemed like the perfect solution. They had never had turkey before and were quite curious about it. Tomoko was so funny when she saw the entire bird in the pan. She was so shocked that it was SO HUGE! But, it was really only an 11 pound bird and there were 6 of us! Kayo liked the cranberries a lot, but I think the rest of them were turned off by them. Rina LOVED mashed potatoes and the stuffing seemed to go over well, too. We drank a bottle of Syrah and DJ brought out episodes of MXC. If you haven’t heard of MXC, the channel Spike TV in the U.S. bought old episodes of the 1980’s Japanese classic, Takeshi’s Castle. It’s a reality game show where the contestants have to go through many different obstacle courses. And MXC mixes clips from the show together and dubs over their voices with funny American banter. Luckily the banter is a little too fast for them to catch all the dirty jokes. The moms were really excited by the fact that they were watching the TV show they grew up with and that their kids were loving it too. And, of course, they came bearing gifts. Being invited over to someone’s home is very rare and usually only done between close friends. So, I think they enjoyed an American Thanksgiving! I know I did!