Today I am thankful. I won’t be eating turkey, dressing, or pumpkin pie today for the first time in my life, but this year I don’t need all of that to remind me to be thankful. Today I look around and I see the largest gothic cathedral in the world amidst hundreds of orange trees that charismatically line each and every cobblestone street, and I am thankful. I am thankful for this opportunity to study a language that I love in such a beautiful country. Sure, I could choose to dwell on the fact that I am missing a yummy Thanksgiving meal with my family back home, but I choose to see how very LUCKY I am to be missing that one meal to be here in Spain instead. I am learning new things; I am growing as a person from these things; and I am experiencing a culture different than my own. For all of these things I am thankful.
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