Thanksgiving From An Immigrant’s Perspective

A day for contemplation and gratitude

Photo by Zoe Schaeffer on Unsplash

My first encounter with Thanksgiving was less than auspicious. I had moved to Berkeley, California to enter UC Berkeley’s Ph.D. program in linguistics. For the first semester, I lived in International House.

One Thursday morning in November, I went down to the dining hall for breakfast, and it was…