My birthday was the week after we
got back from Paris (wow, so long ago!) and it was strange, not celebrating
back at home, with the usual crowd. The people here are wonderful, though, and
they made my big 21st birthday so much fun, despite the fact that it was on a
Tuesday. I had a day of over-eating and then a night out with the girls. We went
to get aperitivi, where I had a tiara
on my head and a giant pink tie to wear around my neck that screamed “Happy
Birthday!”, all courtesy of the amazing people here and the Asian Market across
the street from the gym. After drinks, our group of ten went to dinner at Osteria dell’Orsa before returning back
to Forni, where Marta was waiting for us with a Pan di Stelle (chocolate cookie) and chocolate mousse cake that she
had made from scratch for me. My room also was completely filled with balloons
and a “Feliz Cumpleanos” sign (for some reason the Asian Market only had
Spanish birthday decorations). The night ended with music and talking and cake
and cake and cake…until the wee hours of the morning, in which Viola taught us
all traditional Albanian dances and Skyla tried to teach us Hawaiian hula
dancing.
The
fact that I ordered a drink on my twenty-first birthday was not nearly as
special here as it would have been in the U.S., since I’ve been drinking wine
with dinner since the first night we got here. But it was still really nice to
have such a big group to go out with to celebrate, especially being so far from
home.
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