My birthday

So my birthday was yesterday. I can go buy cigarettes now, vote, or open a bank account. I need to go open a bank account, and I dropped off my absentee ballot in the mail yesterday.

Well, at midnight yesterday, my sister came to visit me and then dropped off a minimalist painting she drew as my present. My first reaction was, “What?!” Because it was just a lotus flower on a background of pure brown. The minimalist style. But, I like it. It’s a nice and simplistic picture.

After my sister left, I went to sleep.

After I woke up, the day was pretty much ordinary. I went to my classes, there were people who wished me happy birthday, but overall, nothing big happened. I had my Chinese one-on-one discussion today, so I had to go back to Vanserg (I despise walking to Vanserg, since it’s so far away). But when I got there, Zhang Lao Shi was there. She’s very nice, and she was the one who was supposed to talk with me. I had a good time talking with her.

When I got back to my dorm, I did hardly anything. But soon it was six and I went to eat dinner with my sister. We went to Yen Ching’s. I have found an appreciation for that restaurant. The restaurant owner, waiters, and waitresses were all so nice! It might have been because my sister and I spoke to them in Chinese the entire time. But we were given free soup, and then two extra free fried wontons, and when we asked them to put the meal in a take out after we finished, they gave us a free box of rice! I’ll be going back to Yen Ching’s in the future. Plus, their food is also pretty good! They actually have some authentic Chinese food.

When I came back to my dorm after dinner, my roommates had put a banner that read “happy birthday Yingna!” And I got a balloon. Later, my roommates had some of our hallmates come to our dorm and they sang me happy birthday, and we ate ice cream cake. We also had (diet) coke and cookies and they gave me a card that had the theme song from Shrek in it. It was really cute.

At 10, I went to meet my big sib/lil sib family from CSA at Berryline, where they said happy birthday to me and got me some tea. I wanted tea, cause I ate ice cream only a little before.

Overall, I liked my birthday.

I’m so old now.