Happy Birthday Ladies!!!

So. Today is May the 13th. Ok, so maybe its not May the 13th today, but for my purposes it is.

May the 13th is the birth date of two of the fantastic girls on this trip and so let's pretend that today is the 13th and I am not two days off on this post.

Happy Birthday!!!

Really, I am not that far off, because I am a reporter of the events here and the events were not over until early yesterday morning. So... this is my report.

It was supposed to be a surprise. The two girls whose birthday it is/was are twins and one of the guys on the trip happens to be dating one of the twins. He was the instigating factor that set the ball rolling. He went about setting up a party with all of the people on the trip and ordering a cake and a keg. Well, that was all good and fine, but when some of the Chinese students found out they had some other ideas.

In the end that little action to plan a party turned into a school event. The program had some money set aside for group events and this seemed to qualify.

After classes we all piled into a classroom for a movie from the Film Festival. We got lost on the way there but made it eventually. The movie was amazing.

After the movie we wasted a little time... blogging and the like... and then we all made our way to the East Gate for supper. This was one of the only times where every Canadian student from the program was in attendance. We were also lucky enough to have some of the Chinese students with us.

Supper was good, and at a restaurant I had not been to before. I was able to snap a photo of the group though it did not turn out very well... but... it is the thought that counts right?

Anyways, supper was over and it was time for the "school" activity to begin.

We walked over to our main meeting place, the flagpole, and all hopped on a bus paid for by the University. The bus then drove us downtown to a Karaoke club called KTV. We do not know how Karaoke should be done in Canada, but here they do. We went to a private room that had the main room for Karaoke, and a separate room for warming up. There was drink service to the room and half decent bathrooms with the coolest sinks I have ever seen.

Might I mention that this was also paid for by the University, though there was a 90% discount because of the birthday.

This is how Karaoke should be done. It was slightly difficult since the Canadian students could only sing English songs, and the Chinese students only wanted to sing Chinese songs, but it all worked out in the end. I even managed to hop on stage to sing, Piano Man, Bent, Viva la Vida, and You Raise Me Up. It was difficult singing with others, but it was fun nonetheless.

No birthday is complete without a cake... well... in this case, it was a massive cake. And when there is a massive cake, no birthday is complete without a cake fight. That small action that got this big event started was the same action that acquired the cake. The loving boyfriend of one of the twins did his job right as he brought in a cake big enough for all of us.

Cake was cut. Cake was eaten. And cake was smeared on the faces of many a Karaoke singers. I did not have cake speared on my face, I guess I just don't look like the kind of person who would appreciate that, but I did have the pleasure of watching many people have cake smeared all over.

After being full of cake and all sung out the bus returned.

I managed to grab a little sleep on the way back to school and then somehow I woke up this morning back in my dorm. I was awake somewhere in the middle to get from the bus to my bed, but its all a blur now.

No matter what, it was one of the best birthdays that I have been to. It reminds me once of a Karaoke party that I went to long ago. That party was one of the best, and so was this one.

Happy Birthday Ladies, may the years get ever better.