Birthday Bliss

I think every college student secretly wishes to spend his or her birthday in 8 hours of class. On Monday, I lived out this dream. 

Despite being in class for the same amount of hours I generally sleep at night, I managed to have a pretty good birthday in South Africa! I woke up nice and early to skype my wonderful family! I loved seeing and talking to them on my birthday! 

This year I had a birthday twin and my friend Josh and I got to celebrate our 20th birthdays in South Africa together. One thing we do here for birthdays is that at tea time or meal time everyone goes into the dinning room and makes a tunnel, after an elementary school soccer game style, you know what I mean. Then everyone waits for the birthday person to enter and we all pretend to surprise that person and pretend to get all excited when they are about to walk through the door. It’s pretty funny. And then when the birthday boy or girl walks through the door everyone cheers as he or she runs through the tunnel and we all start singing Happy Birthday and there is cake and a special present from the birthday committee. All this to say that at lunchtime on Monday, this happened to me. 

When our last class got out at 8pm it was finally time to go out and celebrate! A bunch of us went to a restaurant called Spurs for dessert and after being in the same class room all day with the same people, we were a little crazy and fit the stereotype of loud, obnoxious Americans. But it was a great night and it was fun going out with so many friends. I am so thankful to everyone in S.A. who made my birthday a special day and to everyone who sent me birthday cards! I have gotten SO many and I have loved getting so much mail!