Birthday girl!

The tradition for someone's birthday here is to shower them. Not with gifts, but literally being thrown into the shower. This was my experience at 12am on October 6th. Very fun and wet and exciting. Then I immediately went to bed because I haven't been getting enough sleep recently.

The next morning I woke up and had a poem written to me by my twin, Kaya.

Then I went to brunch. Everyone stood in line for me and got me crepes and biscuits and smoothies. They even cleaned up all my plates :)

I talked with my family back home and was sorry to hear about the troubles they were going through. It pains me that I can't be at home taking care of them.

After some studying (but I won't say any more about that), I worked out with Kaya. Getting exercise always makes me happier. I went to Tea with the PHE which is a weekly event of snacks and sweets and tea with our resident Peer Health Educator. Then I studied some more before dinner.

I saw Despicable Me 2 at the Cubberley Auditorium and so I was able to laugh and have some fun before studying some more on my birthday.

Finally, one of the guys in my dorm ordered me CREAM!! Cream is an amazing ice cream sandwich place in downtown Palo Alto. Mine was coconut ice cream in between two white chocolate macadamia nut cookies :) AMAZING!!

Then some more schanagans and I finally got the shirt I won from Thomas for a pool bet! Betting shirts in pool is a common occurrence in the dorm and Thomas and Nick even have a shirt trophy case to display their winnings. So it was pretty awesome for me to get a shirt from Thomas. Plus, Thomas is an offensive lineman on the Stanford football team... so he is a pretty big guy and that is a big trophy shirt to win which I am now displaying in my dorm room for everyone to see!