11/25 Saturday

In the evening I headed to a hutong near the Lama Temple to go to a Thanksgiving dinner party. It was a woman’s house named Susan Jakes who is a reporter for Time magazine here in Beijing. The party was large, and there were tons of lawyers and journalists there. I was able to meet tons of interesting people, including a woman who works at the Canadian embassy, an environmental lawyer (also a beginning squash player), and a woman who runs an abroad program for American students that focuses on kung fu and Chinese language. I also got to eat another Thanksgiving meal, which was quite good.