Friends, Food, Pie and Such...

Every Wednesday afternoon the twelve of us PULSErs gather for a seminar in which we learn lots of cool interesting things about personal and professional development, community development, and also engage in some direct service. It's usually a good time.

This afternoon was our first participant led seminar which meant that a couple of our peers led the seminar. Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching and since we normally have our community meals on Wednesday evenings, Sarah and Jakob thought it would a great idea to spend the afternoon cooking a full Thanksgiving meal and then enjoying it for dinner. So we commenced in preparing a turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, sweet potato casserole, cornbread, stuffing, rice pudding, apple pie, cherry pie and pumpkin pie. It was quite the feast! And it was delicious.

We got to cook with each other, learn about family traditions from each other, eat together, feel completely stuffed together, and just enjoy spending quality time with each other. And I got to carve my first turkey (mom, you would be proud; Mike, I'm still okay with you doing this job at Thanksgiving).

Today was a day of learning, a day of fellowship, eating, bonding and fun with with friends. It's hard to believe I've known these people for a little under three months, yet they've become great friends. Each of them has their own collection of interesting stories that shape who they are, and days like these are perfect for learning a little bit more about them :)