Cesar enjoys Thanksgiving at my grandmother’s house

By Jacob Johnson
New Spanish international student, Cesar Suarez Cuenca ‘25, went to my grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving and ate Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. 
Cesar came to my house after the last day of school for Thanksgiving break ready to experience something new, relax, and play video games. Little did he know just because NCS stopped doesn’t mean my house stops, we kept going like a runaway train at full force.
Eating Thanksgiving dinner for the first time, Cesar indulged in turkey, stuffing, dressing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes with gravy, and a multitude of other things. 
“The food at Thanksgiving was really good”, Cesar said. “The idea of the whole family and no problems of who’s there and not having enough food, because there’s so much.”
Cesar went from overindulging in amazing food to being dragged down to Norfolk to visit someone he didn’t even know. My mom, dad, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandfather, Cesar and I traveled four hours to Norfolk in two cars to see my uncle. It was obvious when on the way to our destination his favorite part was the sights he saw.
”I loved it. It was amazing because it was my first time out of Roanoke,” Suarez said. Seeing his reaction to driving over where the boats pass out of the naval base stationed in that part of Norfolk was a great experience in its own because it amazed him and for someone who’s grown around that, I kind of took it for granted.
To finish the eventful trip My dad, uncle, Cesar, and I were packing up to go to the notorious wing restaurant, Hooters, but due to the pay-per-view fight, we couldn’t get in due to the up-charge they wanted. Although we left the hotel with intentions to go to the adult restaurant, we ended up in Buffalo Wild Wings. 
“I was excited but it was not that deep so no problem,” Cesar said when asked how he felt about the ending of that night. “But I would have liked to go to leave with the experience,” 
Photo by my father

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