Really quickly..

I have to share. Today is, of course, my 21st birthday. I think the other people in Leiden with me realize how much of American tradition I've given up by being in the netherlands. After class ended at 5:30- I told everybody that they were welcome to join me for supper. I was told that we couldn't talk about it yet, and that I had to stay where I was... of course I knew what was happening- cake. At the last moment- before I hear "turn off the lights" I look into the computer lab and see Haley with a cake and candles lit. At the exact moment the lights get turned off the cake slides off of its base and the chocolate mousse cake (along with 21 lit candles) goes onto the floor. After we make sure the place isn't on fire I gave Haley a big hug. I knew she felt horrible that she had let the cake drop onto the floor. We picked it up- at around the side that had hit ... and oh- it was so good. It was so lovely for them to buy a cake and cupcakes. We then went out to supper, I paid, and tonight they can all get me back with the bar.

In the Netherlands, when a person has a birthday, the birthday person buys the drinks. Not tonight- I will do supper and you can do the drinks. So that will begin at 10:00. I will call my parents before then. Well, have a wonderful Halloween- I'll have a safe 21st!