English-language students celebrate American holiday, some for the first time
At 25, Anay Carrillo experienced her first Thanksgiving on Friday. The wife and mother of four from Mexico is studying English while in America on a tourist visa, and she said she has much to be thankful for. “I am thankful to live here where I can have fine food, good clothes,” she said. Pausing to find the right words, she added: “I love to take showers. No hot water where I live in Mexico.”
Carrillo and more than 80 other adult education students came together at the Alta Vista Library in Abilene to celebrate Thanksgiving. Some, like Carrillo, had never experienced an American Thanksgiving.
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