20

I woke up the morning of my birthday hung over. I just kept thinking to myself as I crawled to my closet “Never again, bad bad idea”. I had to stop for a minute to just sit down and breathe because I honestly thought I was going to throw up. It was my body’s way of saying “You’re a year older now, sooner or later you wont be able to handle alcohol the same way”. I never get hangovers, unless I drink lots and lots, but for 2 drinks and 2 shots? I wanted to stay in bed all morning but instead I had to chase around a 2,4, and 7 year old, get them ready for school and take them to school. Trust me, it is not the easiest thing to do when you’re hung over and feel like any slight movement will make you throw up. But after giving them breakfast my body decided to give me a break and I felt so much better. By the time I was done taking them to school and the daycare I was no longer hung over. I then met up with my friends to go to the Mosque for some tea. If you’re in Paris and are looking for a cute place with cheap pastries and tea, the Mosque is the place to go. I love this place, its so cute with their 3 different tea rooms (2 of them are terraces), their mint tea is delicious and they have pastries for 2 euros, which are quite yummy too.  We then all went our separate ways to go pick up the kids and at night my host mom brought a chocolate and raspberry cake for my birthday. The kids sang happy birthday and helped me blow out the candles and then the family gave me my presents. I got a birthday card from the kids grandparents inviting me to “La duree”, a store that makes one of the best macaroons in Paris, to try the macaroons. I got very excited because I’ve tried some when my friend got a box of macaroons from a guy she was seeing, and trust me they are delicious! I have been meaning to go, but I know they are quite pricey. But now I get to go as a birthday present,yay! The family then gave a me bunch of small things. I got a pocket mirror, a small bag that can be used as a makeup bag, a headband with small white roses (I love this) and also got a cooking workshop as a present from the parents. I found this very funny because just a few days before I had screwed up cooking some ground beef for the kids haha. I kinda burnt it....lol. I guess they saw the mess of a cook I am and figured that cooking classes would be better than macaroon baking classes haha (the mom had said before that they would give me macaroon making class for my birthday). But I am quite happy they got my the cooking course, I do need help with my cooking! 

I then went out with the friend who wasn’t able to come out on Wednesday, and we headed once again to Crocodile so I could show her the place. We didn’t stay though, because it was even more packed than Wednesday and there was no place to sit or to move around for that matter. We headed to a café and she got some coffee and I got a glass of rose wine and a crème brulee. It was a quiet night compared to the night before, but that’s alright because we were going to go all out on Saturday. At the end of the night it felt so weird knowing that my birthday was already finished. The day had gone by so fast and I wish it could last a bit longer, well technically it was still my birthday back home haha, just saying! I can’t believe I am already 20! I never thought that I would be here in Paris at this point of my life. I feel so grateful and blessed to have this opportunity to be here.