Comments for I Eat My Pigeon

Comment on Things I Won’t Miss About Dublin and Ireland by Nicoletta

Nicoletta — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:01:31 +0000

Did I detect a Pee Wee’s Big Adventure quote?

Comment on About by Te

Te — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:55:09 +0000

Hey, great blog! I spent 45 minutes browsing your posts yesterday when I should have been marking grade 11 essays. Ah, well.

Love the story behind the title. Language mistakes can be so funny. I once had a language student tell me he wanted to improve his ‘grandma’. I’ve made some funny ones too, once told a Spanish person to cagate rather than callate…oh and told a Spanish postman I wanted to send a backpack full of happy (rather than the contents of the backpack) back to Australia.

Comment on Sticky Mess by Daniel McBane

Daniel McBane — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:16:57 +0000

The Japanese do seem to have an (unhealthy?) obsession with turds, especially the 巻きグソ.

Comment on Mini Japanese Culture Lessons by http://tinyurl.com/fuellewis13484

http://tinyurl.com/fuellewis13484 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:37:31 +0000

This post, “Mini Japanese Culture Lessons | I Eat My Pigeon” indicates that u really comprehend everything that u r speaking about!
I really entirely am in agreement. Many thanks ,Miles

Comment on Food Slut by Jess

Jess — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:20:47 +0000

What a great read! I’ll be keeping an eye on your blog from now on.

I would have tried the balls too so thanks for the heads up haha

Comment on Why I Did Not Celebrate Halloween (and Will Not Celebrate Thanksgiving) by Balanced Melting Pot

Balanced Melting Pot — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:52:49 +0000

I love this time of year, but when you put it that way…lol

No, it is difficult to celebrate American holidays abroad and at this point I’m only doing it for the kids. If not for them, I probably wouldn’t even notice the day on the calendar.

Comment on Why I Did Not Celebrate Halloween (and Will Not Celebrate Thanksgiving) by Kirstin

Kirstin — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 12:11:42 +0000

This is really sad! On Halloween my office was hosting a big focus group with Kyrgyz village councilmen and a lot of local employees, and they all kept congratulating my husband and me on our country’s holiday and it just felt so strange. Then I went to a dinner that night with some American, French, Bulgarian, Russian and Kyrgyz people. One Russian woman gave a very nice toast about how happy she was to be able to celebrate Halloween with us. It was all just a bit ridiculous though, and we explained that essentially, it’s not something that’s celebrated with a nice dinner party and congratulations, it’s fun and silly and campy and probably completely ridiculous to non-Americans. This year, I’m in the states for Thanksgiving and yeah, while it can be fun to put in the wild efforts to recreate an American thanksgiving meal abroad (Bishkek actually has a fairly decent number of Americans and other expats, so it’s a good mix of people who get it and people who don’t), I’m so so looking forward to how easy it’s going to be this year. Nobody questioning the purpose of stuffing, no anxiety trying to find sweet potatoes, no rationing the one can of cranberry sauce that somebody’s parents sent them. Traditions are nice, but maybe it’s sometimes better to just go with the saying, “When in Rome…” and save the American holidays for America.

Comment on Why I Did Not Celebrate Halloween (and Will Not Celebrate Thanksgiving) by Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy

Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:09:28 +0000

I feel the same about Thanksgiving – I have celebrated it on and off the past years, and one of my hard & fast rules is: there needs to be at least 50% Americans present for me to cook a big dinner. I’ve had lots of requests and lots of “they would love it!” from Italian friends, but it’s not a single person cooking a big meal for everyone else, it’s a collective effort! They are fascinated by the tradition and what they’ve seen in the movies, and want the big meal and turkey, but don’t really know that they are missing a lot of the sentiment behind it and it’s very hard to teach.

I’m not sure if I’ll be doing T-day this year but if I do, you are more than welcome to come up to Milan and participate, whether that’s bringing green bean casserole or tracing your hand on construction paper, cutting them out, and decorating the windows with those brown and red turkeys.

Comment on Why I Did Not Celebrate Halloween (and Will Not Celebrate Thanksgiving) by Rara

Rara — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:21:28 +0000

This completely broke my heart. I remember agonizing over makeshift utensils and a teeny toaster oven making thanksgiving dinner for 5, and I know how awful it is when no one else cares.

Comment on Why I Did Not Celebrate Halloween (and Will Not Celebrate Thanksgiving) by Tracey

Tracey — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:16:34 +0000

This makes me sad. Sometimes I think I have it pretty bad (my immediate family is estranged and my husband’s family hate turkey and have no idea why I make such a big deal out of reciting what I am thankful for, or why I HAVE to have chili on Halloween, even though they are Americans born and bred) and then I read a post like this and I become more melancholy. I’m finding the tradition isn’t worth it without the emotion, and the emotions (especially on such holidays as Halloween and Thanksgiving) are so much more important than the trappings surrounding it.
♥ I hope you have as much holiday as you desire, and that there isn’t a gaping hole where they once lived