so birthdays are kind of funny. especially in other hemispheres. but the weather has been perfect, about 80 degrees and sunny and fantastic. I slept with all the windows wide open so it was almost like sleeping outside and almost like it was August here and not winter. I was feeling weird last night and at 2 in the morning I cleaned my whole room and got out my oil paints and painted some cereal boxes because that was all I had. It felt so good. And even better to wake up at 10am with a room full of fresh sunny air and see a big card slipped under my door that everybody in the house signed happy birthday. But nobody was around during the day so I just sat in my room in the sun and made a calendar and read all morning. Then I had to carry 5 kilos of dirt and half of a wooden door that I found in the street to ceramics class and I almost fainted on the bus because it was so hot (I'm getting a little worried for summer). And the profe wasn't even there but I made a dinosaur companion for Ruby my dinosaur who you will never get to see pictures of since every time I try to upload pictures to this blog safari finds it necessary to quit. But anyway, then after a failed attempt at using skype to talk to the family Jenna, Rafa, Erin, Nate, Diego, Felipe, y yo all went out to Indian food down the street. I had some vegetable korma like I've never had it but it was really good and really exciting to have Indian food. Diego and Rafa had never had Indian food before and I don't know how much they liked it but I thought it was really good. Then we all came back and sat out on the enclosed patio and Diego played guitar and we all sang and he made fun of how badly we sang. It was fun but there is always the problem that we don't really know the songs in Spanish and no one else knows any songs that we know. Except sometimes twist and shout works as a mixture with la bamba but everybody gets tired of that pretty quickly. Which kind of sucked because just as I was getting ready to do something more exciting at around 11:30 everybody left or went to bed. I said goodnight and came back and found Rafa singing to himself and playing guitar and he obliged me and played for me for a little while. I think it was the prettiest music anyone has ever sang to me and kind of made me wish I was in Mexico but then he got cold and went to sleep too. It's kind of funny for it to only be midnight on my birthday and have everyone have gone to bed already. But I guess I am having the party on Friday. I can't wait! I have a really amazing 80's outfit and everyone in the house is super into it (well, except for the boys). Marisol, la dueña, even came out and told us that she had a costume ready and that she wasn't going to let anyone in if they weren't in "disfraz." And I went into the computer room and found Francesca looking up 80's clothes on the internet. It's gonna be great!