September 20th

So my first Birthday abroad was a success! I had such a great time. So in the morning when I woke up I found a little arroz (rice) pastry on my plate with my breakfast made, like it is every morning, from my hostmom. It had a cute little pink candle sticking up out of it. She leavs for work before I leave for class, but that was nice and enexpected! The classes were normal but I was sung to in three different languages in front of everybody! English, Spanish and Euskera, which is the native Basque language here in northern Spain.
So I went shopping with my good freind Nikki and Andrea around the old quarter (Casco Viejo) and just walked around. After dinner, I went to my friend John's apartment, from San Francsico, and he had a little party there with the people we have been haning out with for the last three weeks. Tommorrow, Tuesday marks the third week I have been in Spain! Exciting! Throughout the day i got facebook messages, emails and happy birthdays all day which was very nice! So we had like three pastry cakes at johns and some wine to celebrate! I got a cute purse and neclace from John's adorable italian roommates. After that we went to a popular bar called Dubliners near the Guggenheim downtown and danced and talked! overall a great birthday, simple and around great people and in a great place, I am very lucky.