Dr. Olga Pahom is a college instructor of linguistics, a former missionary, an avid knitter, and a wife and mom in a multicultural family. Having lived in several countries, she is passionate about helping others build authentic friendships with people from other cultures and discover how God works in cross-cultural settings.
Olga has a B.A. in Missions and a B.B.A. in Marketing from Lubbock Christian University, an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and a Ph.D. in English and Linguistics from Texas Tech University. Her academic work on bilingualism and cross-cultural communication has been published in top academic journals and presented at national and international conferences.
She currently lives in Texas with her husband and their two children, and she blogs at www.olgapahom.com.
I vividly remember my first Thanksgiving in the U.S. I was sixteen years old, and I had been living in Texas as an exchange student for 3 months. I loved that first Thanksgiving. Everything about it was new and exciting: the…