At 11/19/07 07:29 PM, M-A-R-C-U-S wrote:
Thanksgiving? Mal, can you actually explain to me wtf that holiday is all about? Being an Aussie, my collective knowledge of the day stems from watching movies - i.e. I know you all get together like it's Christmas and have a big dinner together. Then at Christmas you do the same...
the way we celebrate it is that when the first "pilgrims" came over from England, they made these colonies. I'm not sure which one or where, probably Plymouth, Mass...
This was before colonization, when social outcasts and religious zealots who were kicked out of England fled to the Americas in hope of creating their own tolerant society. like, 1500s or so.
Either way, the colonists were poor farmers on the new land and were about to find out what winter in New England really was all about (not fun..at least for them)
So these natives (indians) showed up and taught them how to plant corn and how to farm the land correctly.
At the end of autumn the pilgrims had a giant feast to celebrate the harvest and invited the area natives to the feast. Both natives and pilgrims shared their feast together in harmony.
history is probably skewed, but the thought is there...being thankful for the friendship that they were given and sharing with friends and family alike what they grew that year.
Its celebrated on the last Thursday of November, so it's this coming Thursday.
Canada has a thanksgiving too...though I don't know why the hell they do..but theirs is in october or something like that. They also celebrate boxing day or some shit in January, the week after christmas.
Anywaysss - Hello to the many newcomers... I don't think I've posted here in at least 6 months or something. I'm just about to do my last high school exam ever tomorrow afternoon, so I r very pumped.
congrats...unless of course if you fail the exam and thus fial high school..in which case I would have to disown you forever and call you an utter failure every chance I get.
Hopefully I'll drop by again before the year's out and greet you slacking lot again.
^_^
Please do. I don't know these people either and I'm lonely around them!!!