My Birthday!

 I didn't know what to expect when I realized I was going to be celebrating my birthday in Guatemala with a group of people I had just met and with a family that I knew for a week. Before coming, I didn't know if I wanted to tell my home stay because I was scared they were going to feel obligated to do something for someone they just met. But, since I have been here my family has made me feel at home and I have made such great friends in such a short time, today passed all my expectations!

I woke up and the family all hugged me with a big feliz cumpleanos. I took the extra ten minutes to straighten my hair for once (not that it stayed straight) and put on my only nice shirt(not that you can see it because I am in a sweatshirt) and went to school. We had Spanish and during our break my Spanish tutor's daughter baked me a banana bread cake! Then Whitney and Gabby had bought three large banana breads the day before! It was a party!

My birthday banana breads! Freshly baked from my tutor and brought by Whitney and Gabby!

Thanks Whitney and Gabby for bringing the amazing banana bread loafs!

Thanks Sandra (my tutor) for the incredible cake!

lighting the candles!

Blowing out the candles

Our work for the afternoon was the prepare our Charla for tomorrow. It is a presentation in Spanish that we are going to be giving on Friday to real people interested in our products telling them how we can help them. I have a lot to memorize tonight because tomorrow we are going to be presenting in front of our group.

After this everyone decided to try a new place in honor of my birthday called "The circus bar". Turns out...to put it bluntly...it sucked. I can't drink because I am on antibiotics and the only food that looked appealing was pizza (my favorite...not). So we got pizza and drinks and I had a slice of pizza which I should just never do because that did not settle and I got sick..AGAIN.

At the Circus Bar. 

But, what put me in a better mood was when I returned to my home Daneysa had decorated my room with balloons and streamers!

My decorated bedroom!

For dinner they made me eggs with tomatoes but I felt to sick to eat them and just ate tortillas and a banana. I finished my bday video chatting with Tay, not for her to say happy bday but to help with her essay. At least she is officially not mad at me anymore...

Overall, it was a pretty good birthday and surpassed my expectations (not that I had any).