My 35th Bday

This was my first birthday in Holland. I have an blog from about 3 weeks ago with my birthday party, but this last Tuesday was my actual party. It was my first birthday in a long time away from my US family and friends. I received many wonderful cards, email and e-cards, and calls from the US, so I feel distant but not forgotten. I do wish there was a supersonic leer jet to wisk everyone from California over the Holland for an evening in just half an hour. Oh well, maybe Rob will design one for me for my next birthday.



I celebrated with Rob and my new friends I made here in Holland from my language program. Since today was a school day (yeah, still hard to think of my self as a school girl again with backpack and tests to study for)…



After our class ended at 3:30 PM about 8 of us from the course headed over to a local bar in Delft to celebrate the my bday and the last week of the first section of the course. It was one of the most international parties I’ve ever attended. We had (OK the obvious first) one girl from LA a few of you may have heard of, and a charming Dutch man named Rob…. And for the others there is Juliana from Brazil, Jeanette from Germany, Delilah from England, Elena from White Russia, Ladin from Turkey (and her Dutch husband Eric joined later), Hasan from Iraq and Mohammed from Iran. Not able to attend , but also in the course, are Sena from Togo, Bimo from Indonesia and Murgugayan from India.



Well, anyways, we have a regular UN there, with people from almost every continent in the course. We tried to speak some in Dutch, but also a mix of English and French for some of the other students. Elena does not speak English, so all conversation with her