Day 102: November 30, 2014

Today was a lazy day, meaning that this will be a very short post. I was supposed to go with Binh back to his house, but he ended up having to leave last night so I couldn't go with him. So this morning I woke up at 10am and did some studying before getting lunch with Cate. Our goal was to walk around until we found a rice place where both of us could eat (she's a vegetarian) and we ended up eating in an alleyway nearby. I got rice with some of the delicious tender pork and duck egg that I had had in Thao's hometown.

We came back to the dorm and studied for our Vietnamese test tomorrow. The rest of the afternoon was filled with some attempts at studying, watching a lot of YouTube videos, and at one point having Cate enter my room with her declaring that she wanted to try to braid my hair a specific way. We had a meeting at Chris' house at 5:30pm, so we all left the dorm at 5. We were greeted with the smell of Thanksgiving; turns out Chris was so disappointed with the Thanksgiving we had at Black Cat that he wanted to give us another one. He had prepared turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, and stuffing, and we all ate a meal together while wrapping things up for the semester. We had what I would like to introduce as Thanksgiving banh mi: French bread stuffed with Thanksgiving leftovers. It was a great meal, made even better by the fact that Chris had prepared all of it along with homemade eggnog and bourbon. After our quick meeting was over, we sat down to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas. When the movie was over, we came back to the dorm and did some last minute studying before basically giving up for the night.