Happy Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving I made myself a stuffed turkey breast, mashed potatoes & gravy and garnished it with dried cranberries. Even though I was all by myself it still felt festive and tasted great. The following day I had a proper Thanksgiving with some Swedish and British friends. I also made some of my Tunisian friends try some pumpkin desserts. The idea of having pumpkin is absolutely disgusting to them but they all ate it politely and most of them said they liked it. (Not sure what they really think though).

My Roommate’s Birthday

For my roommates birthday we decided to go to a small beach town called Nabeul about an hour and a half up north.  Once there we explored the old town, bought some sugar dolls that the city is famous for, tried out numerous restaurants, picked up sea glass and rocks on the beach, and ate some really great desserts.

Everything went very smoothly until we tried to get home. We bought our louagge tickets and waited with roughly eight other people. The small crowd steadily grew and it became obvious that lots of people wanted to return to Sousse but very few people wanted to come to Nabeul on a Sunday afternoon. Part of the problem was that it was a holiday weekend so lots of people who study and work in Sousse had gone home to visit their families but now it was time to get back. During the time we waited only four louagges took people to Sousse; so you can imagine that with over a hundred people waiting and only eight spots on each louagge people started to get very desperate. Even though my roommate and I had a birthday party to get to we weren’t pushy enough to get on any of the louagges. After two hours we made friends with one lady and the three of us got our money back, and went and waited another two hours for a train.

 
(All those people waiting for the train had been waiting for a louagge just like us).

Though we were ninety minutes late for my roommate’s birthday party all the guests graciously waited and seemed very understanding.