{"id":1244,"date":"2019-12-02T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2019-12-02T06:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:29:11","slug":"first-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/first-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanksgiving is not a holiday in Cambodia. We decided to wait and celebrate on Sunday so that the SALT participant in the province, Anneliese, could join. Despite spending most of Saturday at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Visal's Wedding (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/visal-wedding-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visal&#8217;s Wedding<\/a> Crystal still pulled together an authentic tasting Thanksgiving meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_124053-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We ended up with a full house &#8211; 16 people &#8211; for the Thanksgiving meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Max: Long time MCC alumni who is now living in Phnom Penh.<\/li><li>SALT\/YAMEN: Two Americans, two Kenyans, and an Indonesian.<\/li><li>Justin: Canadian backpacker who is planning to apply to the SALT program next year.<\/li><li>Phillip\/Belen\/Ollie: The current Connecting Peoples Coordinators and son.<\/li><li>Audrey\/Martin: Married couple living in Prey Veng. Our Peace and Education Coordinators.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is possible to buy Turkey here <em>now<\/em> but it&#8217;s prohibitively expensive so Crystal cooked three chickens. Sweet corn is commonly available here because it&#8217;s a popular dessert food (yep &#8211; it&#8217;s even an ice cream flavor).  Crystal also made green bean casserole (the green beans are a bit different here but you couldn&#8217;t tell), mashed potatoes, yams, and her raisin apple broccoli salad (times have changed &#8211; apples and broccoli were not available here ten years ago).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_125231-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The kid table.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_131926-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Max made traditional Mennonite Peppernut Cookies (or Pfeffernusse Cookies)<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dessert, Crystal made a crustless pumpkin pie (we had a gluten allergy), Max made Peppernut Cookies, I picked up some pastries at a local bakery, and several people brought fruit. I also brought three flavors of Thai ice cream &#8211; yam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/the-dangers-of-durian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"durian (opens in a new tab)\">durian<\/a>, and strawberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191201_132925-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>We even watched the Macy Day parade on Youtube! Very windy this year!<br>Anneliese&#8217;s Dad worked at Macy&#8217;s for many years so tradition in her family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was good to have so many guests over. After dinner, I took the girls out to a playground to run off their pent up energy while every else carried on other Thanksgiving traditions. One person took a nap on the couch while Settlers of Catan was played a couple of times and a movie was on in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00001IMG_00001_BURST20191201135537-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Max talking about his life&#8217;s work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That evening we had &#8220;turkey&#8221; rice soup for dinner. We&#8217;re thinking of trying a Duck for Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is not a holiday in Cambodia. We decided to wait and celebrate on Sunday so that the SALT participant in the province, Anneliese, could join. Despite spending most of Saturday at Visal&#8217;s Wedding Crystal still pulled together an authentic tasting Thanksgiving meal. We ended up with a full house &#8211; 16 people &#8211; for&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/first-thanksgiving\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[133,103,134,104],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-cambodia","tag-holiday","tag-salt","tag-thanksgiving","tag-yamen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/00010IMG_00010_BURST20191201124011-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-k4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}