birthday

I'm 21 now, so that's pretty weird.

I'm not real big on grand birthday extravaganzas, so here's a how I celebrated:

My student and her mom baked me a cake and my teacher surprised me with it at the end of the day. Of course, decorated with an N for Miss Nar. So cute.

My teacher and I! 

School was really wonderful. A great deal of the teachers found it was my birthday and wished me happy birthday. I also got even more drawings than usual from my students which was fabulous.

I wanted to go to the beach after school or something, but it was raining. Some teachers invited us to a bar after school so we stopped by. I had no intention of staying for more than 10 minutes but it was so much fun we ended up staying for a few hours.

 My roommate Kyleigh made me take a shot with her. Which I whined, complained and panicked about for about 20 minutes before I decided to do it. It wasn't that bad.

On the way to the bar I stopped at Kopenhagen and got a cappuccino. This is no normal cappuccino. They put about an inch of crushed chocolate in the bottom before they pour espresso over it. The end result is essentially a shot of melted chocolate. Needless to say, I preferred that shot.

Then we went to an Arabian restaurant, which was delicious. Middle Eastern food is one of my favorite things. There was also a belly dancer so that was pretty interesting.

Finally we went out for ice cream (I got banana, cinnamon and cheese flavor) and then I made a friend with this statue.

Overall, great birthday. How could you have a bad birthday in Brazil? I'm still looking forward to celebrating with my family and friends when I get home though :)