"Oliver" is one of my Turkish friends at UM. He and several of his friends decided to order a Thanksgiving meal from a local grocery store with all the fixin's including mashed potatoes and gravy and pumpkin pie and stuffing, which they had to walk 3 miles to get because the DC buses weren't running on Thanksgiving day. They filled themselves with lots of turkey and then watched some movies because they are not really interested in "American" football. They think that the action stops too often, being used to soccer, rugby, and basketball. They ended up watching movies late into the night, but that did not stop them from getting up at 3 am on Black Friday to go to some sales to get the good deals. They stood out in the cold for several hours in order to shop at Macy's, which struck me as funny. Oliver did get some good deals on some shirts and an MP3 player.
I thought that you would enjoy hearing what kind of things international students do on foreign holidays when they are thousands of miles from home. Oliver actually also has a "Christmas" tree, which he said he has in order to celebrate New Year's rather than Christmas. He is really enjoying our American holidays to the fullest.
