22nd birthday

Yesterday when I woke up (because of Estonian words flying through my subconscious dreams at six in the morning), I was suddenly one year older. When it comes to birthdays and Christmases I am child-minded (I think childish is the wrong word here), and I think that there is some kind of magic surrounding certain events in life. That once gone through or once prepared with the right traditions you will be transformed and feel special, at least for a while. Anyhow, my point is birthdays are important, both my own and other people's!

When I woke up I carefully thought through in which order I should open my envelopes and my package.

I started with the thinnest and worked my way up. So my brother's letter was the first one to be opened, and it was so beautiful that I cried a little. Next was P's envelope from Sweden, which contained a bookmarker magnet with the text Good friends are like angels...you don't have to see them to know that they are there.. It also contained a beautiful letter, and I cried some more :P The "real" present will be given on the holidays since it could not be sent by mail. The package from Germany contained three books. One was the comic I had seen in Germany about the genes, then the Simon's cat book 2 and a book called Finnen von Sinnen. It tells about a German man who got married to a Finnish woman and in his book he tells about what it is like to live in Finland taken from a foreigner's point of view.

Of course you need to have some cake on your birthday too.

This one I got from Selver, it was on sale for only 4,50€! And it was so big that I had 4/5 of the cake left today, so I invited the people from my class over to help me eat it. And for being an Estonian cake this was very very good! Sometimes when I buy a cake/sweets here I get all excited and when I taste it and it is not good I get so disappointed. Well, not this time!

My classmates sang for me two times, the second time was during our oral final in Estonian, the teacher got a bit carried away and started singing all by herself at first :D
I was worn out and stressed before this final, because our teacher has had some funny ideas throughout this semester. But it went really well, and I am proud of myself. No more Estonian until February!

So after classes I walked around in the malls, bought some Christmas presents and stuff I needed for myself. I met up with five of my classmates to go and play in Megazone, which is a laser-shooting game. But it was closed at first, so we decided to eat something first. We went to the cafeteria in my favorite bookstore, one I have always wanted to go to. They had real good proper food also, so I will probably be going back there! Since 50% of us were Swedish-speaking we decided to speak some Swedish, which was nice for a change, especially since they all know Swedish so well.
Megazone was so much fun. We split up in three teams of two, so that it would be more fair distributed. Here were the winners; team red:


We decided that we have to do this again sometime. It was cheap, fun and almost like a small workout.

After megazone we spontaniously went to the brother P's apartment to have some glögi and use their sauna. I have been missing using a sauna, even though we do not even have one in use at home. But still, it is so relaxing!

I got home about one that night after a great birthday. Probably the best one in some years. This can only mean that the 22nd year of my life will be awesome :D

Soon school is over, only 15 days!