My Mississippi Birthday

 

Birthdays have always been really exciting to me, I get more excited about someone's birthday than they do themselves and when I found out I was getting to do my study abroad semester, it didn't take me long to realise I would turn 20 while I was here.

I'm actually one of the babies here, especially out of the international students. Many of them are way into their 20s and can legally drink here already a privilege I have not experienced but anyhow, it's pretty cool that when I was only 19 I was able to pack up all my things and move 4000 miles away from home!

My birthday falls on a stressful time of the semester, the week before thanksgiving, a time when we students are overloaded with work and deadlines to keep to, but despite that, my favourite people still managed to make time to celebrate my turning 20.

The day before my birthday I went over to see Paigey, it had been a while, and we went to go and collect her dog and bring it home with us to play with for a few hours. Copper is the most excitable puppy I think I've ever met, he rode home on my knee in the car and gave me lots of kisses all the way. We got him back to the guys flat and he spent ages running around not sure who to choose to go to for attention since we all gave him so much so that was cute.

 Then me and Anthony and Paige went to Walmart briefly. Later on that night, me and Heather went back over to the guys apartment, Copper had gone back, but Paige had brought me a birthday cake while we were at Walmart together and I didn't even notice. She brought it out with candles lit just before the clock struck twelve and it was officially my birthday although it had been my birthday for 6 more hours back in England!

After that I went to Hillarys to stay at hers so I could wake up with the dogs on my birthday morning, I opened the cards my mum had brought with her from family in England when she visited and a card that Geeta had sent with me before I left, she's so organised!

That night, in true Thirsty Thursday style, we pregamed hardddd. With our tiaras on, we began to drink with the intentions of everyone getting me as drunk as possible. This was successful since I don't even remember Jesse or Hayden arriving at my apartment to join us, let alone going to the Square. But I do know that I had the greatest time and I am so thankful to everyone for making it special and memorable even though I don't remember it! Classic me!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and I'm in Kentucky and I took lots of photos and so I will post soon.

Em x