Birthday In the Holy Land!!

Well for those that don't know, I just celebrated my 21st birthday here in the Holy Land. I'm so glad that I got the experience of being able to celebrate it while I am here. I was slightly disappointed to be celebrating it because I had classes straight from 8 in the morning until 9 at night so it made it so I wasn't that excited for it. But luckily I have two amazing friends here that love me and made sure that my day was amazing!!! They did so much for me and it truly made my day probably one of the best birthdays I have ever had!! So I'm just going to do a small list of the things that they did for me.
1. Let me sleep in, and didn't wake me up singing Happy Birthday (At my request)
2. Put a giant banner across my door saying Happy Birthday
3. They screamed Happy birthday and attacked me the minute that they saw me in the morning
4. Put balloons and a note on my chair in the first class
5. Made sure that my first class sang me Happy Birthday
6. Took those balloons for the first class and carried them to the next class and gave them to me there again
7. Made sure they sang Happy Birthday to me in class also when I got up to make an announcement
8. Told me Happy Birthday every time they saw me
9. Gave me presents in Islam class when I was not very happy with my teacher (they gave me a ten virgins oil lamp, a David and Goliath sling, and two bags of my favorite old city gummies!!)
10. Made sure I felt special all day long
11. Wrote me great notes to be put on my door later
12. Gave me a good night hug wishing me happy birthday again right before I went to bed.

Basically I love these girls and they are the bestest ever!!! I had a lot of other things from different people all throughout the day but they were the ones that did most things. Some other things that happens was my roommate kelsey waiting in the room until I woke up so that she could be the first to say Happy Birthday to me. Kim telling me Happy Birthday every chance she possibly could. Chelsea and Brinley sending me a note and sweettarts in Islam class wishing me a happy birthday. And then the whole group wrote me birthday notes and they were put on my room door. Basically everything was amazing and my birthday was amazing here in the Holy Land!!! Thanks for the emails and texts from people back home wishing me a Happy birthday, it meant a lot!!

Love
Cherysh