Yesterday I turned 21 and let me just say, it was the best birthday I have ever had. Normally, my birthdays turn out quite bad but I'm not here to bore you the details with birthdays past; this post is about my birthday yesterday and how much fun my friends and I had.
The day started out with the weather. I know this is a weird way of starting off the good things that happened on my birthday but it had been raining and cold the previous two days and yesterday the sun came out and shone brilliantly. With that I headed out to St Paul's Station to meet my scavenger group. Well, the fifth girl of our team still didn't show up and so we decided to say, "Forget her, we can do this ourselves," and carried on our merry way. We talked and learned a lot about each other. It was really nice just to be able to meet new people from different places other than America.
And after that I had advising and got all the classes I wanted. I am now taking three of my four classes with Nekol and I have Wednesdays and Fridays off. I wish I could have Mondays off but I like having a break between Tuesday and Thursday...kind of nice. I was in and out of advising in no time, my advisor was really impressed with being precise on what I wanted. I was just thinking my advisors back home would've killed me if I hadn't been prepared.
By the time I get home I've received three Hallmark e-cards from family members, a couple of e-mails, and more than several birthday wishes on Facebook. It's hard being away from friends and family on such occasions as your birthday but with the sheer amount of happy birthday wishes, it felt like my friends were all with me. Every birthday wish brightened up my day that much more.
Around this time it's about dinner time and my floormates have roasted two chickens that they stuck on beer cans (interesting but it tasted wonderful), potatoes, salad, strawberry jelly, and for dessert a chocolate pie that they served as my birthday cake. Well, when they got to the cake they turned out the lights and lit a candle and sang happy birthday to me. It made me cry it was so touching. I didn't even know what was going on until they lit the candles.
After dinner Nekol's floor and I went to a club called seONE near London Bridge station. They had foam cannons that were aimed towards the dance floor so it shot bubbly foam out every once in a while, there was an inflatable boxing arena where Hannah took out Darren with a single punch, and the music was absolutely wonderful. It was nice to just go out and dance to celebrate. I haven't been dancing in a while and if there's something you should know about me...I love to dance.
We danced until the wee hours of the morning (three am) before taking two private cars back home. Remember, black taxis or cars from firms you know are the only way to get around London if you are not taking tube or bus. Once home, I hugged everyone, took a shower to get clean from all the foam, and went to bed with a smile on my face.
I believed yesterday and still believe today that it was the best birthday I could have ever had.
<3,
Dre
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