Happy Birthday to me!
Wednesday was my birthday, and it was an absolutely fabulous day!
First off, Jeremy got up with my alarm (the hardest gift for him to give!) and made me breakfast before school. Then off to school, where I opened up the several cards and a package that had arrived for me in the previous days. Thank you everyone!! Later, I was surprised with a mini-party after lunch, complete with a Dairy Queen ice cream cake! Yes, we have Dairy Queen in Thailand, but this was the first time we'd gotten anything here and it was fabulous. After school, we enjoyed one episode of the Cosby show (a birthday gift from my parents) before heading to a pizza dinner with friends. Then we spent a little while in the mall walking around shopping, and Angela and I both got these hideously large (about 8" diameter) sunflower hair ties, which we agreed were too tacky to pass up. We wore them yesterday to school. (Suprisingly, we got very few comments-I hope people didn't think we actually thought they looked good!) All in all, I had a very excellent birthday, highlighted by cards and emails from many people who I didn't expect to hear from. I guess I'm so far away, I was really surprised that people remembered my birthday, and it meant more than usual.
The most entertaining thing that happened this week was definitely in class, though. Sam had gotten some balut from the Phillipines, one of his favorite dishes. Balut is duck embryo that would have been ready to hatch in a few days, had it not been turned into an Asian delicacy instead. It looks very much like a little duckling, complete with a beak and tiny feathers. Sam brought one of these to class and offered 100 baht (about $2.50) to any student who would take a bite. We had a few students take him up on the offer, and overall, it was quite a wild scene. Imagine one of the craziest nights in high school youth group, only in the middle of a computer lab. Needless to say, it was very entertaining, highlighted with outbursts such as, "Oh, I bit its brains off!!" Now that's something you don't hear much in American schools.
First off, Jeremy got up with my alarm (the hardest gift for him to give!) and made me breakfast before school. Then off to school, where I opened up the several cards and a package that had arrived for me in the previous days. Thank you everyone!! Later, I was surprised with a mini-party after lunch, complete with a Dairy Queen ice cream cake! Yes, we have Dairy Queen in Thailand, but this was the first time we'd gotten anything here and it was fabulous. After school, we enjoyed one episode of the Cosby show (a birthday gift from my parents) before heading to a pizza dinner with friends. Then we spent a little while in the mall walking around shopping, and Angela and I both got these hideously large (about 8" diameter) sunflower hair ties, which we agreed were too tacky to pass up. We wore them yesterday to school. (Suprisingly, we got very few comments-I hope people didn't think we actually thought they looked good!) All in all, I had a very excellent birthday, highlighted by cards and emails from many people who I didn't expect to hear from. I guess I'm so far away, I was really surprised that people remembered my birthday, and it meant more than usual.
The most entertaining thing that happened this week was definitely in class, though. Sam had gotten some balut from the Phillipines, one of his favorite dishes. Balut is duck embryo that would have been ready to hatch in a few days, had it not been turned into an Asian delicacy instead. It looks very much like a little duckling, complete with a beak and tiny feathers. Sam brought one of these to class and offered 100 baht (about $2.50) to any student who would take a bite. We had a few students take him up on the offer, and overall, it was quite a wild scene. Imagine one of the craziest nights in high school youth group, only in the middle of a computer lab. Needless to say, it was very entertaining, highlighted with outbursts such as, "Oh, I bit its brains off!!" Now that's something you don't hear much in American schools.
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