The fingers being used to write this sentence have now been in existence for 18 years. Pretty exciting, eh? My birthday celebration itself was relatively uneventful. I woke up about 9 to find no one else in my house, but 10 minutes later my mom and aunt came rushing up to me, arms open prepared to hug. My mom then scurried away to her bedroom and came back with two shiny packages in hand. Unsure of the correct gift-receiving protocol I took the presents graciously as my mom quickly began telling me to open them. Inside the first package was a maroon-colored leather mini-backpack (Berett, now I can be a little like you) and in the second was a semi-matching wallet. They are both really cool and I'm already using them to tote around my stuff.
After gift-giving concluded, we headed out to my grandparents farm for a bit. My little cousin Marcos and I had fun playing with the color accent feature of my camera (Thanks Jub for the expert opinion on camera selection. I love it and all the kids in my Spanish class are jealous!). We ate some lunch including the typical mandioca, which is some sort of starch that I've eaten plain, cubed, and as potato chips. It's pretty awesome eating on a farm and knowing that half of the food your eating was grown on the same land your sitting. In fact today I had an omelet filled with cheese that my grandma somehow made (I don't know why, but up till now I seemed to have forgotten that cheese was actually made). After the farm we headed home where I napped for a bit.
That evening I headed over to my friend Jazmin's house where we had a small birthday party for me. Since we had school the next day, we didn't go that late and spent our time eating pizza, cake, and playing Paraguayan Pictionary. I'm quickly discovering that down here they have many of the same games, but with different rules. For instance, Pictionary is played with the same board and set of cards (in Spanish of course), but the rest of the game is played like Charades. Another example is Five-Card-Draw which we play without betting at all. I simply go with the flow and all seems to be fine. All in all it was a good celebration of adulthood.
Oh and in my mother's honor, the day after I ate some birthday cake for breakfast. Aren't you proud Mom?
After gift-giving concluded, we headed out to my grandparents farm for a bit. My little cousin Marcos and I had fun playing with the color accent feature of my camera (Thanks Jub for the expert opinion on camera selection. I love it and all the kids in my Spanish class are jealous!). We ate some lunch including the typical mandioca, which is some sort of starch that I've eaten plain, cubed, and as potato chips. It's pretty awesome eating on a farm and knowing that half of the food your eating was grown on the same land your sitting. In fact today I had an omelet filled with cheese that my grandma somehow made (I don't know why, but up till now I seemed to have forgotten that cheese was actually made). After the farm we headed home where I napped for a bit.
That evening I headed over to my friend Jazmin's house where we had a small birthday party for me. Since we had school the next day, we didn't go that late and spent our time eating pizza, cake, and playing Paraguayan Pictionary. I'm quickly discovering that down here they have many of the same games, but with different rules. For instance, Pictionary is played with the same board and set of cards (in Spanish of course), but the rest of the game is played like Charades. Another example is Five-Card-Draw which we play without betting at all. I simply go with the flow and all seems to be fine. All in all it was a good celebration of adulthood.
Oh and in my mother's honor, the day after I ate some birthday cake for breakfast. Aren't you proud Mom?
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1 comments:
That's my girl!
I love you very much!
Birthday hugs,
Your first Mommy. :-)
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