"Thanksgiving is one of the best holidays because you get two days off of school to eat a ton of good food and be with your friends and family. The night before Thanksgiving it has become a tradition for all my "girls" to get together and eat Chinese food for dinner. We all have a great time, because we leave all our school work and worries behind." -Claire Montgomery, Senior

"My favorite memory of Thanksgiving is from back when I was in first grade. Remember those stupid little hand turkeys you would make back then, trace your hand onto brown construction paper, and then draw a beak and an eye? Then you’d finger paint four different Thanksgiving colors on the four fingers that are left…. To finish off the masterpiece you would write your sweet little "I love you, Mom" message on the back. When you gave it to her, she would always use it as the center piece at the Thanksgiving day dinner table. That little brown paper turkey brought such joy to my young heart when my mom told me it looked wonderful."

-Luke Friar, Junior

"I remember last year we went to my aunt’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. We arrived at 7:00 p.m. My aunt had set up everything except for the turkey, which was in the oven. There were at least 30 guests—a quarter of them were vegetarians. At 8:00 p.m. my aunt went to go check if the turkey was cooked. The turkey was still frozen, as it was three hours ago. We set the oven on high and let it cook for another three hours. The guests were cranky and very hungry. We went to go see if the turkey was cooked, but it was uncooked in the middle. To calm the guests, we served the uncooked turkey. After dinner there wasn’t any turkey left. We assumed that by pouring gravy onto the turkey, the guests wouldn’t taste the raw turkey. I never ate the turkey though…I’m a vegetarian!"

-Dipa Gill, Senior

"After Thanksgiving two years ago, my brothers and I were playing a game on the stairs. Dinner was great but we had a lot of stored energy. We were throwing nerf balls at each other and I tackled my brother down the stairs. He was only 7 years old and I broke his thumb. That is one of my greatest memories of Thanksgiving."

-Pete Taylor, Sophomore