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I'm amazed by the strange traditions we keep.

For example, muggles over in America just recently got finished celebrating a holiday called 'Thanksgiving'. I learned a bit about it back when I was in elementary school - for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it's muggle schooling for kids. Basically, it's a day to celebrate a dinner that happened back in 1621 between some English colonists and some Indians. The details are a little fuzzy, but I know there was some sort of poultry and lots of starches involved. Nowadays people have decorations hanging around of pilgrims and Indians sitting down and being best friends, bonding over food.

What most people don't know is that Thanksgiving originated in England, where the Colonists were from. It was originally a day of prayer, to celebrate the harvest. Another thing most people don't pay attention to is that the Indians had been trying to push the Spanish out of the their country for like, a hundred years before they shared dinner with the English, since the Spanish kept trying to kill them off and take their land. Only a few months after the first Thanksgiving dinner, the Jamestown Massacre happened where the Indians slaughtered almost 400 colonists, including women and children, and then the English poisoned them a year after that during a "peace conference". This went on for another 250 years or so.

I mean, I guess what matters is they had a brief period of unity, but I just find it crazy. I've also been listening to my Mum rant about it for the last 22 years, seeing how she's 1/4 Apache. She goes on these tangents every Thanksgiving about the injustice of it all, usually while aggressively mashing potatoes. Never a dull moment in the Wright household.

So yeah, you're all very welcome for that morbid trivia. On a different note, I'm very much looking forward to Christmas.