My Taiwanese Birthday!

Spending my Birthday in Taiwan was the only thing I needed to celebrate, that in itself was enough, it would be the coolest birthday memory yet! However, we had to celebrate the last day of school... so mine as well celebrate the birthday along side of it too😎

My lovely friends were awesome enough to sacrifice some sleep, and got up early to all go out for breakfast in the morning before school. There was no reason not to though, we had more to celebrate than a birthday, we were ten hours away from being done with student teaching; closing another chapter in our books.

At school, it was just another normal day until lunch rolled around. I was surprised by a few of my sixth grade students with a few gifts and cards that all of my first, second, and sixth grade students had made for my last day and birthday! We got to play the pie in face game and the teachers stuck around afterward and sang happy birthday to me (in English and Chinese) and presented me with a traditional Chinese cake wishing and cutting ceremony!

After school; Ashley, Zoey, and I went to get dinner just at the night market around our apartment and then off to Jack's of course to get ice cream! No better way to start the celebration than with the est ice cream in the whole world.
We came back to the apartments to get ready, we had big plans to explore a different side of the city we had yet to see. We met up with some of the teachers and coordinators and a new rooftop bar/lounge that just recently opened called Indigo. It had a crazy cool view of the city lights at night. It was nice to be in a friendly environment with the people we had gotten so close with over the past few months.

We hung out with the crew for a couple hours, then the four of us teachers adventured the more college atmosphere of the city by going to a disco club literally called "Lamp"! The three of us girls got in for free with a student ID card and had unlimited free drinks inside, poor Ky could not get in on this deal! haha Never the less, we met some super nice ladies there that we all wish we would have met sooner in our trip to show us around the town become closer with. The disco atmosphere was no let down, it held up to our high expectations! We ended up going home around 1:30 am, but it was acceptable for one last college hoorah! Plus, the next day (Saturday, we only had plans to go to the beach one last time) 😄