So... I went to one of my usual restaurants Saturday night to eat and study/practice some Chinese, as I often do. There is one waitress at this place that speaks pretty good English and at one point while I was there she came up to my table and asked me if she could talk to me for a minute. I was like um... ya... I randomly talk to all of ya'll all the time. She was very awkward and nervous this time and it took her awhile to say what she was trying to say... and some of it I couldn't understand, but basically..... she said that she was leaving the restaurant tomorrow and she was very happy to have met me and thought I was a very interesting person and that she would remember me and my light circle. It was quite touching.
So Sunday morning I told the rest of the teachers what had happened... and we decided that we needed to all go and say goodbye. Then since there were so many of us going... we decided it would be like a farewell party.... so we should get a cake. The only problem is.. people don't really get cakes here unless its a birthday. So we walk in the restaurant with this cake.. and they automatically are like.... o whose birthday is it. Since I had misunderstood what the waitress had said before.... and Saturday was actually her last day there...... it became my birthday!
They had the person playing the piano and the singer sing happy birthday to me..... and brought me some sort of long noodle birthday dish.......yay for free food. We played around in the restaurant for awhile... and took some amusing pictures (i need to get them from Natasia.. then i will post them). When we decided to cut the cake....I asked the waitress for a 大刀... basically I asked for "big knife" .... so she went to the kitchen and brought out this like 2 foot long serrated knife..... but it worked pretty well for cutting the cake.. and it was quite tasty.
It was a good time... didn't quite work out like we had planned.. but eee....everyone had fun.
So it was a very merry unbirthday to me :)
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