Happy Thanksgiving from the developing world. Jessa and I are missing home like crazy this week but are very excited about spending Thanksgiving in Guyana. The Guyanese people don't celebrate Thanksgiving but most of them have heard of it because they all seem to have relatives living in the United States. That's actually a major problem here. There are as many Guyanese living abroad as there are living in Guyana. There is a massive "brain drain" in Guyana. Anyone with skills, training, or education leaves the country for a different(better I'm not always sure) life in the US, Canada, or the UK typically. Just a few years back Guyana led the world in percentage of highly educated persons migrating abroad at 89%. Shocking huh? Anyway not trying to be a bummer on thanksgiving just thoughts.

We've got big plans tonight. First we have to finish a day's work. No time off for Thanksgiving here. Then we are attempting to re-create our mother's dishes with another American VSO couple from Chicago tonight. We will see how the green bean casserole turns out, it's still up in the air. I don't think we will screw up the mashed potatoes or rolls from the bakery, but you never know. We also were able to purchase a few bottles of affordable (probably not very good) red wine. It should be a blast, no football though, we will just have to imagine.

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving is wonderful and full of adventure just like ours.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Blake and Jessa