1. Thanksgiving

2. During the voyage, the living conditions were very difficult.
The Mayflower
On September the 6th in 1620 a cheap named Mayflower left England with Pilgrims on board for religions reasons.
On November 11th they landed at Cap Cod in massachussetts, wich wasn't their initial destination.
During the voyage, the living conditions were very difficult.
The passengers had no privacy, for their toilets they had chamber pots, it was very windy, they suffered injuries and they were mostly bored.

3. The Native Americans
The Pilgrims arrived in the New World during the winter making it very difficult to find food an build shetlers.
The Native Americans help the colonists to survive to the bitter winter. They helped them to hunt for food, grow vegetables, cure illness with plants and built houses.

4. The First Thanksgiving
The first thangsgiving took place in the autumn 1621, it was for celebrating and giving thanks to God for their first successfull harvest. For this dinner Pilgrims invited the Native Americans for thank them to helping the colonists to survive.

5. Thanksgiving today
Thanksgiving is a bigger holiday than Christmas and all Americans try to get home for thanksgiving in conclusion we can say that Thanksgiving is very important for all the Amercians.
During this dinner Amercicans say thank you for the food they have and all the good things in their lives.
A typical Thanksgiving dinner is composed of :
roast turckey with stuffing served with cranberry sauce. The vegetables are sweet or mashed potatoes, celery sticks, creamed onions and corn.
The dessert is usually a pumpkin pie.

7. Thanksgiving atctivities
During Thanksgiving American can watch American football on TV.
American football is different than soccer firts it's more violent, then the ball is more like a rugby ball and finally the players have to wear protactions (helmet, shoulders pad …)

8. They can also watch Macy's Thanksgiving parade on TV wich take place in New York city. Macy's is a department store. In this parade we can see marching bands, floats and larger-than-life ballons.

9. Presidential Pardon
Presidential pardon is a ceremony where the president of the USA saves the life of a turckey because every year on Thanksgiving lot of turckeys are killed for eat.

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