It was my birthday last Friday!
I remember last year on my 18th birthday thinking, “this time next year, I’ll be celebrating my birthday in college.” I had the same thought again on November 7th, when I was talking to my mom and brother on the phone. It was already the 8th in Japan, and they kept asking me “what’re your plans? are you sad you’re not home for your birthday?” — Some people don’t find too much significance or importance in birthdays, and I know plenty of people who don’t celebrate the occasion at all. But to me, birthdays are a day to celebrate the life and the future of a person. An ideal birthday for me is a day that I get to spend with people who I love and who care for me; family, friends and the like. So thinking that I wasn’t with friends I’d known my entire life, or my family with whom I always spent birthdays, was going to be really different for me.
But of course, like almost everything I’ve experienced in college so far, different was great.
My friends came knocking at my door at 9:30am (not particularly early, but I had no morning classes that day so I was of course still totally in bed). They came bearing gifts and food and posters and I actually couldn’t have been happier being woken up earlier than I had to be up.
That night, a bunch of my friends from high school who go to school in the Boston area now and fellow Wellesley girls had dinner at the North End and headed to the MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS concert at TD Garden. It was… amazing, of course.
Then of course we got back to Wellesley at around 4am and proceeded to eat half of a chocolate cake. I felt so loved. and full. and although I missed my family a ton that day, I’ll say that my 19th birthday was one of the best birthdays so far.
This post is short because of all the catching up I have to do with school work from having spent the entire weekend doing anything but studying so I’ll leave it at that. Happy Winter!