Published Thursday, November 1, 2007

23 years old and am a big girl now!

The picture: Friends and acquaintances from Lebanon on my birthday, taken on our porch.

First of all, thank you to everyone for all the attention I got on my birthday! It was so incredibly nice. I have had an amazing celebration over here. I have now been celebration for four days, something that can be a little bit too much. It all started on Sunday before the big day, where I was on a workshop in Harisa with the volunteers in the Red Cross Youth. During the lunch I got a cake for desert, not to eat, but to get it all over my face, something that was a different experience from what I am used to. I heard that the crème is supposedly very good for the skin, thank you!! No more moisturizer for me anymore..hehe

The big day was celebrated with a gathering of friends in our apartment. After a bravely try of baking my grandmothers chocolate cake in the gas oven with no thermometer, we got a burned bottom, but otherwise a very good cake!! (thank you for helping me Camilla!!)

My good husband was incredibly good to me all the day, she woke me up for breakfast and had hidden small surprises for me in the apartment, and she was a brilliant hostess during the night. Shukran ktir habibti!! After the party we went out with good friends.

The last two days we’ve been eating dinner and cake. Today Camilla and I surprised the others in the office where we invited all our colleagues and volunteers for cake, this was a big success. It is always fun to do something that is not expected and that will please the others.