23eena

I am now an honorary member of the "It's Cool to be 23" Club!

Firstly, thanks for all your birthday wishes guys! Very sweet of you all! Birthdays when you are overseas are great...you get a whole bunch of messages from people who remember you are a day earlier and wish you for your "Australian Bday", then the next day when all the celebrations are over you get other people who forgot about the difference wishing you for your "Canadian Bday"! So its like 2 days of birthday, what could be better??

Well the day started off great, right at 12 Ioana and Jenn surprised me with a card, some pictures of our trip, and presented me with the much hated caustic flowsheeting assignment to burn as my candle! So we proceeded to go out into the courtyard with a box of matches and the assignment, attempt to burn it and sing happy birthday. Except for some technical difficulties (the assignment just wouldnt burn...it was kind of freaky, like it had some satanic caustic coating on it or something and Hoadly (choad) was whispering in the air: you are goign to have to repeat this course, i would keep that if i were you...) it was way better than cake!


Then me and jenn just watched movies...Mean Girls, A Walk to Remember...gotta love teeny bopper movies!
The next day got a bunch of mail, which is always nice! Bday cards that arrived right on time and a wonderful parcel my boo put together, with cards signed from my Al-Mustajeeb kids and councillors, and a bunch of our friends and family from back home. Great card from my family, with a picture of a moment in my childhood that brought back vivid memories...drinking milk in my kitchen in Castleridge...making popcorn in the popcorn maker...watching Annie and Alice in Wonderland every single day...my mom painting the back of the closet with our names...only the best of times.
That evening after massive public transportation problems, we got to the place where I was having a little bday dinner. It was at Cafe Sienna, a cute little cafe on Chapel Street, which is a funky boutique part of town. It was fun...good friends, good cake! And i got these hot hot aviators from Maya! After Cafe Sienna we went to Prince Alberts, then Acadia, then to the Crown Casino at this club called Odeon. Didnt get home until 6 that morning! So I basically partyed through to my Canadian birthday :)

The table at Cafe Sienna

Also hung out with the curry friends i go clubbing with. The only good that came out of joining the Indian Students Association that day I got ambushed! (ya they call brown people curry's here! it took me a while to get used to but now it feels odd to refer to a curry as being "brown")

Woke up that next morning and went straight to the mall, and had some yummilicious brekky at the Pancake Parlour...amazing place...they dont serve you eggs with butter, they serve you butter with some egg...and the most amazing blueberry pancakes with artificial Canadian maple syrup...(that stuff is in high demand here!). Anyways then i bought part of my bday present from my boo, a backpack for backpacking! I am in love with it, it is the hottest thing ever! Although it is the size of me, I am soooo excited to go on my travels now and sew on patches from all over the world! AND i got cowboy boots as part of my present, they are SO hot!! I had to confirm with one of my fashionistas from Canada to see if they were in style there ...apparantly cowboy boots and skinnys are in mags at the moment so it will be perfect for fall!

Overall it was a great bday. I usually hate bday's away from home, because its those times that you miss your loved ones the most. But, alas, the friends that I've made here helped me to make the transition to 23 in style, and it was a bday I wont forget! So again, thanks to everyone here and everyone there for all the well wishes, luv ya all :)