My 23rd was pretty sweet - at school, I was warmly congratulated by the other teachers, got a bouquet of tulips from Ulrike, and 21 self-made birthday cards from my 5th graders!! They also sang "Happy birthday" to me in 4 languages - English, Turkish, Arabic and German. I brought muffins to share with them and it was a fun day!
At home, Anna had also gotten me flowers and some goodies (like my new favorite tea from the awesome little tea shop we have here), and I got a really really cool birthday card from my parents. (They got me something that my kids would think was cool too - a High School Musical singing birthday card. Pretty awesome.) I also got my acceptance letter to DePaul! Timo, Simone and Katja stopped by in the course of the afternoon/evening to say happy birthday, and then Anna, Simone, Katja and I went out to dinner at an Italian place around the corner - Mom and Dad's birthday treat (via credit card :).
On Friday I had a little party, since we have so much space here in the apartment and seemed like a shame not to use it! I had "Kaffee und Kuchen" (coffee and cake, and other tasty treats!) with my best girlfriends here, age 9 to 37! It was really fun and I'm so thankful to have such sweet friends!
Here are some pictures! You can see the rest on Facebook.
