Diverse Tales of Gratitude: Thanksgiving Across America

Have you ever spent Thanksgiving away from home, reflecting on loss, or creating new memories? This Thanksgiving I spent with my Auntie Ava’s family due to me being from the West Coast. With Thanksgiving break and Christmas break being a week apart it doesn’t make sense to spend money on plane trips.

However, some classmates in my visual journalism class can relate. Many of us spent Thanksgiving with family (not immediate) and friends. We all documented the Thanksgiving experience through sound slides, vlogs, and audio stories.

From the West to the East Coast

Students and people are often teased for our reaction to living in different environments. For example, I’m from California living in Washington D.C. The weather is the main struggle people see with us students from the west coast, but they don’t really know how bad is the struggle for us. This sound slide highlights the story of two Howard University students (Selma and Emmanuel) struggles of being from the West Coast living now on the East Coast.