Thanksgiving Dinner and Mafia

From 11am to 9pm, my whole day was eating and playing.

Though being depressed a lot couple days ago (almost 2 weeks?), I finally became better last night, and was kinda looking forward to join the Thanksgiving dinner with my SG. To be honest, I do not really know them. When arriving around noon, I barely can chat with Joe, Janet and Elisa. I even felt a little bit awkward just hanging over there.

Later, Denise, Lung, Petty and Kai-Kai arrived. Then followed with Charlie and David, who are friends of Janet. We had nice dinner including turkey, apple pie, stuffing, green beans, mashed potato, ice cream, and cheesecake. Though they are not as fantastic as those the Hann's made, they are still nice.

We then played mafia for almost the whole night. (nobody wanna pay attention to Denise' thanksgiving speech time :P, maybe....ppl just wanna keep it in their mind?) Janet was so great lying.^v^

I felt a little bit sorry that I can't go for the early-bird (midnight bird?) again this year. Without target and companion, I think staying home resting would be better for my cold.

Lee was at Aunt's place! They must have their thanksgiving dinner together! (It shocked me.) So they're dating? and so we are not really close I think.....

Moving out

Had a phone talk with Paul Sung today. He told me John(?) and Kim may need someone to help in their house and they have one spare room there. He said it's just an information, but I could think about it and pray for it.

Honestly, I'm a little bit moved.
Though Aunt's nice, I don't really get the deep communication relationship with her. We seldom have deep and inside talk. I may feel guilt, just because staying here looks a little bit like taking advantage from her. Am I ? I really have no idea.

It's the end of November now. Should I move out? Lord. Shall I?

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is around the corner! It's tomorrow, actually.

In the choir rehearsal this Tuesday, Stan Endicott, the choir director, asked us to write down 20 things to be thankful for. He said, the first 10 things would be just kinda superficial, while the next 1o things would be much harder for you to thank for.

I thought about my status now, and wrote down my 20 thankful things pretty easily.

1. Living healthy
2. Staying in US so far
3. Choir and audio tech ministry to join
4. Great church to attend (saddleback church)
5. Have place to stay (Thanks, Aunt)
6. Parents who care me and love me
7. Friends that I know while in Pgh
8. Friends in saddleback small group, audio team, choir and career ministry
9. Sweet and warm host families: Ron& Darlene Hann, Mark& Amy Meyer
10. My dear sister Carrie

11. Mick's getting married
12. Got no job and still alive
13. A car to drive
14. Haven't ran out of $
15. New tote
16. Urbana Youth Convention at the end of year
17. Albert's friendship and PS2
18. Accountability partners: Eileen and Lily
19. KLV's spiritual habit competition
20. SongN's friendship

Life is not always happy when things don't always go in the way we want.
I do feel discouraged, exhausted, depressed, sad, angry, and hopeless sometimes. However, when I look at those wonderful blessings in my life, I started to see this world in another way.
Thanksgiving is not about delicious turkeys and pies only. It's a great time and chance to say, "I am so thankful for you, Lord, for the darkness and the brightness in my life."