So, every year there is this competition going on for Thanksgiving: The department for the international affairs of our school organizes the big official dinner for the foreign faculty (I posted about that yesterday), but the staff of our international housing also wants to offer a nice dinner for us. It sometimes causes quite some confusion around here, as we often don’t really know what’s going on until the last minute! The options between the two always seem endless, like …
Options:
- Lunch (international department) & dinner (international housing), both on Thursday (which would mean a lot of eating in one day – not a good option)
- Vice versa (also not good)
- Lunch (international department) Thursday, dinner (international housing) Friday (possible option)
- Vice versa (same)
- Dinners both Thursday & Friday (not a good option, as some of the faculty always travels over the holidays and would miss all the good meals)
- Lunch Thursday & Friday (kinda weird to have the big Thanksgiving meal at 12:00 noon, and then two days in a row)
- Anything else that hasn’t been mentioned yet!
Well, every of the options above (and everything in between) has been announced in the last couple of days, and even on Wednesday during our official faculty meeting two different announcements concerning our Thanksgiving meals were given. Anyone feeling confused? So do we.
Good thing is, we got it straightened out! Option 6 actually is what happened and we enjoyed just another great meal by our dining hall staff! Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!