:)))

today my friends threw me a surprise birthday party :)

i was pretty surprised. don't know why but i'm just not good at figuring out surprises. haha. but i was so touched..so sweet of them to do this!!! so i got up early today to paint the set for Airband..we're doing a medley of songs from The Lion King, so we painted the bongo drums and xylophone that we made outta cardboard, painted our sunset backdrop and made our rock for simba to stand on. everything looks pretty good, if i do say so myself. haha. watched like 10 mins of the football game (which we of course lost) while eating lunch.

then andrew drove me n cartoon to go get me a CELL PHONE!! yes i have a phone after 2 years! i'm now contactable!!! :) so excited. it's all nice and purple too! motorola verizon. it flips open too! SO HAPPY! i finally get a new phone after like 5 years of the same lao pok phone. haha. too bad can't use this at home though. they don't use sim cards here apparently.

so we went to the souphouse, where everyone like jumped out at me and yelled 'surprise' when i walked in!! i was like, OMG what is this. can't believe they did it for me!! pple cooked asian food (stir fry, jap soup, chicken rice, satay) oh made my day. and susan gave me a mooncake. haha. they made me wear a pink tiara and pink diamond clip on earrings too. but awww..i'm so touched so many pple turned up!! :) yummy choc cheesecake too.

on a side note, Brother Yun, who wrote the book Heavenly Man, came to speak to my sch. it was pretty cool. he's been thru so much! he got sent to prison in china, where the guards crushed his legs, but one day God just told him to walk out of prison, and that's exactly what he did. no one stopped him. isn't that incredible??? his testmony is just so awesome.
also, this weekend's parents weekend. so tons of old pple around. good side - free food all around ystdy. cotton candy, popcorn, some greasy calorie-infested pancake called lion's ears, all that yummy stuff.
we had Orphan's Night again. haha. for all those whose parents didn't come. games, food, fun. oh how i love it here :)