By Jin Jiajie, The Miami Student
Thanksgiving family dinner
November is here and students have begun getting excited for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. While most Miami University students are looking forward to the traditional family dinner, complete with the turkey, international students have their own diverse ways to celebrate the holiday.
Thanksgiving day, for the country’s non-natives, is always a time of home-sickness, according to sophomore Thu Nguyen from Vietnam.
“On Tuesday night, you will see all the cars leaving the campus. At that moment, you just want to come back home, but you cannot,” Nguyen said. “So I plan to cook food with my best friend and spend our private chatting time for the Thanksgiving.”
To relieve homesickness, some Miami families open their doors and welcome international students to share their turkey together.
“My professor has invited my roommate and me to have dinner with his family on Nov. 28,” Iranian graduate student Sanan Moradi said.
Moradi and his roommate are not the only ones who can enjoy a decent meal on Thanksgiving night. Junior Jessica Lemond also invited her new Finnish friend, Saara-Sofia Eveliina Pasi, to her home in Columbus to spend the holiday.
“Personally, I am a Native American, so Thanksgiving is a very important holiday for my family,” Lemond said. “I just want to share my culture with Saara who has taught me so much about Finnish culture.”
Read the full story by Jin Jiajie from the Miami Student.
