In this exhibition I will be detailing and comparing the thanksgiving experience’s of my two roommates, Zeid Yaghnam and Dylan Altman. Dylan Altman is from the United States of America, more specifically, Orange County, California. Where as Zeid Yaghnam is from Amman, Jordan which is in Asia. Dylan and Zeid’s Thanksgiving experiences varied vastly.

Dylan has grown up around the traditional thanksgiving dinner. The presence of turkey and other staple thanksgiving foods present at the dinner table. Usually associated with the gathering of family and friends in a big effort to say thanks for those close to you and be around a familiar setting. This Thanksgiving, Dylan stayed in Eugene where he went to a family friend’s house for the meal and proceeded to stuff his face with typical Thanksgiving Day foods.

Zeid is a completely different story as he has grown up in a foreign country where Thanksgiving is not a national holiday and most presumably celebrated by none or close to none of the inhabitants of said country. Zeid had invited his friend from Seattle, also from Jordan, to come down and spend the weekend with us in our dorm. Zeid patiently awaited his friend while seemingly taking care of other responsibilities, such as homework and laundry, rather than sitting down at a dinner table full of
Thanksgiving food.

Around the same time that Zeid’s friend arrived, Dylan had returned from his Thanksgiving dinner. Zeid had not eaten so he presumed he could easily order food on Postmates, to which he d find out was not available. He then proceeded to walk to get Indian food nearby.

After the meals we all had a normal night, playing video games, recording music, and watching TV.

*Throughout the posts I will detail most of the events that both Zeid and Dylan went through, some pictures from the Thanksgiving night and some from after because while observing I had got caught up in the moment, as well as the fact that I could not be present at Dylan’s dinner*