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R and I attended Thanksgiving last night with a bunch of American scholars from the ACCELS program. R went over early to help and I made apple cobbler at home. It was supposed to be optionally gluten free with an avoidable crumb topping, but after reheating the crumb kind of sunk into everything so poor K, who was hosting, didn't have many options for dessert. She had made a lot of fruit salad which she had to put on the sideboard becuase by then the table had "become dairy" which it isnt supposed to do after meat apparently. I think spelt flour would work for the apple crumble, except that I haven't seen alternative flour anywhere in UZ.

Anyway, there was turkey and stuffing and potatoes (made with margarine and non-dairy creamer) and veggies and lots of very nice food. Someone even made pumpkin pie out of a qovoq - the Uzbek version of pumpkin. With the cinnamon and consensed milk it really did taste a lot like pumpkin pie.

Today I have a lesson, and I'm not sure what is going to happen this weekend. It looks like we can't go to the mountains because we haven't got affiliation yet, so we'll probably go out for beers with one of our American friends or something.