SOLE TO SOUL

Give Thanks !

This was my first thanksgiving – EVER!

Contrary to what some of my American friends think, we don’t actually celebrate turkey day in England. There are so many things we don’t have in England because they are distinctly American!

I’m telling you this a country and culture on it’s own, there is nothing like America – FACT!

Thanksgiving is about food and family and some more food. It was great to be with my family and be a part of a tradition but really it was great to have some chill time, to relax and to reflect.

I used this thanksgiving time to put things in perspective and do give thanks for me being here and having this opportunity. Lately I’ve been feeling very distant from home and everything in it and that’s understandable but in all those thoughts distract me from the great experience of being here.

Sometimes we move at a million miles an minute and we don’t step away and just reflect.

You see things are getting intense at Temple the amount of WORK to do and the little amount of time to do it in is so far from a joke. So coming to New York was that chance for me to get away from all of that and I made sure I appreciated it to the max.

It’s funny how I’m writing this and watching Alica Keys and Jay-Z perform Empire State of Mind. That song will forever be the anthem of New York City and quite rightly so. I here that song in Philly which is funny to me seeing as the Yankees beat the Phillies in the World Series but I played it on my Ipod going through the city and I heard it on the radio while I was there.

The whole song is incredible yet while I was standing in Times Square the lines in the chorus were all I could think of,

” These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you ”

So let’s here it for New York where I had the greatest Thanksgiving with my family and time with my friends.