And now for another indecisive moment – what to do for thanksgiving?

  • fly to San Diego and spend the weekend with my sister (roundtrip flights right now are $350+ and personally I hate spending so much time in the airport)
  • fly to Boston and spend the weekend with Karen at MIT
  • insert myself into my relatives\’ festivities in the midwest (Michigan or Chicago), relatives that I don\’t know that well
  • stay in Pittsburgh (in the cold, which means no black friday)
  • I know some people must be thinking how about _go home to the bay area_? The fact of the matter is that Thanksgiving has never been big in my family. My mom, a registered nurse, usually works on Thanksgiving. Because it\’s like that, my sister usually stays in San Diego during the weekend. So usually it ends up being only my dad and me having turkey soup to commenorate the day. But what to do what to do!

    From time to time, I envy how people have a place to go to for the holidays. For me, Thanksgiving is the same as Christmas. My mom works. So it\’s just my dad, my sister and me. My grandparents usually attempt a dinner a few days before Christmas. A dinner at the Chinese restaurant. There\’s no family rituals. None of that. And so, I am waiting for the day that I could join another\’s family\’s festivities during the holidays. What does it mean to spend family time? What does it mean?

    On another note, I noticed that I don\’t like spending time with people in large groups. I lose myself in the unfamiliarity. There\’s so much of this group thing here. I can\’t do it. I want to spend time with people one-on-one. But that\’s not the way it works since it\’s such a small program. If I invite him, I must automatically invite her…and him…and him too.

    I found this nice cheesecake place the other day. They also have good bakalava.

    4 thoughts on “

    1. if you do come back to the bay area, come to my house for dinner. i always bring back berkeley buddies (usually so-cal people who didnt go home). :)

    2. WAIT SERIOUSLY!? :D hahaha, i was thinking that…but not sure how well i would be accepted by a Viet family or if I would be intruding…BY ME THE DRAMA QUEEN

    3. i\’m going up to the bay area for thanksgiving since my mom keeps bugging me about going home. we\’re not big on the thanksgiving idea, but we\’ll have big family gatherings just because everyone has that time off.

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