Tomorrow Thursday is Thanksgiving. As you know for the movies, it is one of the most important days of the American calendar, and the only four-day weekend of the year. It's celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and most people also have Friday off. The University closes up for the four days, and in fact on Tuesday and Wednesday many students are already gone, off to spend the holiday with their families. Only us foreigners remain :-)
Thanksgiving Day remembers the first Fall spent here by the pilgrims arrived from England, who celebrated the first successful harvest, which ensured their survival for the upcoming Winter.
On Thanksgiving Day, people are supposed to give thanks for the good things they have in life. This holiday doesn't exist in Spain, and I believe this grateful feeling is not common among Spaniards, who many times are too busy coveting more and more things (more money, a vacation house, a better car, more sex), without stopping to think about the good things they already have and which are taken for granted (a job, enough money to live comfortably, a house, a family who loves them). I know some people who could use some thanksgiving.
