Hello everyone! I know Thanksgiving was over a week ago, but I have to tell you about my Thanksgiving in Iceland. First of all, it snowed! This was my first legitimate experience with snow. Sure I have seen snow, but I have never played in snow. Hannah, Louie, Elle, and I had a snowball fight, and decided to make a snowman. We wanted to make a giant snowman with four tiers, so everyone started working on their own snowball. I was clearly the rookie of this whole operation, seeing as my snowball was half the size of everyone else's after ten minutes. However, mine was the most circular, and it was decided that it would serve as our snowman's head. After two hours we had created a monster. Our Frosty was over 7 feet tall! The whole neighborhood admired him and I think it put everyone in the Christmas spirit.
Hannah and I accepted the fact that we would most likely be eating pizza for Thanksgiving dinner since it is not celebrated in Iceland. So we were pleasantly surprised when some of our teammates invited us to their church for Thanksgiving dinner. They were members of the Mormon church and the Mormon missionaries had cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner. It was so good to eat a traditional Thanksgiving food; it made me feel closer to home. After we stuffed ourselves we went over to our teammate's house and watched a movie. I would say it was a great day!
On a sadder note, Hannah blew her knee out and went home last Sunday. It was sad to see her go, but she hopes to be back playing in Iceland next season. Games without her have been rough. Thankfully we just got a new American on Friday! Her name is Katie and she will be playing a 3/4. It's weird that I am the Veteran American now because I still feel so new to the town. Once our car starts working I will show her around and teach more of the ropes. We have 3 games left before Christmas break and I plan on winning them all. This also means I will be coming home in 16 days! I cannot wait to see everyone! That's all for now. Bye.
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