There’s nothing odder than trying to celebrate what you consider to be a national holiday in a place where they don’t. Well, that is unless you’re a visitor to a place celebrating a holiday you have little to no idea about, and suddenly, you have all kinds of new and different traditions and foods to contend with.
Then, you have the holidays where a visitor may be experiencing a national holiday for the first time – your friend from Italy visits during Hanukkah, or a distant relative from Qatar is in town during Halloween. Case in point, our friends from the UK, Caroline and Ivan, are in town for 2 weeks…they’re going out to dinner with us tonight for what will be their very first Thanksgiving ever. So they’ll get to experience all the foods and traditions they’ve never known before…or thought they knew 😉
That’s what I was thinking about when I was perusing YouTube the other day. In the process, I found a handful of adults’ first experiences with Thanksgiving. They’re pretty fun—take a look!
Note: Some of these videos may include adult language and might not be safe for work (NSFW).
Tasting Thanksgiving Food For The First Time:
Irish people
People from Nigeria
British people
North Koreans
International Students from Florida Atlantic University
What Thanksgiving Means, According To:
People from Switzerland
British people
“A variety of non-Americans” 😉
Drunk Irish people 😉
So there you go. Happy Thanksgiving, travel friends! And Caroline and Ivan, I hope your first Thanksgiving will be everything you ever thought it would be. 😉
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