Jessica goes everywhere: September 2015

Thursday, that was the day of my 21st birthday. I still haven't felt my 20's and i'm not yet ready to deal with myself being 21 years old. But, let me share to you the different happenings for my birthday.

Part 1: September 17,2015

There was this noise in our kitchen that woke me up around 5 a.m. I was guessing who of my apartment mates was making that noise. I had two options: First, I thought of Den making cake for me, and second, I thought of Ryan cooking because maybe he's hungry. At the end, I didn't mind much to avoid spoiling whatever they were preparing.

When my alarm did its job, I opened my door and saw 3 pink roses, breakfast ready, and a plate in our dining table. I immediately guessed who prepared it. The breakfast prepared was ham and french toast with egg in the middle, and there's only one person who I taught such here in the Philippines. He was taking a shower back then when I saw everything, so I knocked heavily at the door as a way of saying "Thank you". We had breakfast together and got ready for a very busy day at school.

September 17, 2015 was the first day of our College Selection, and I had a lot of responsibilities to do throughout that day. I was in-charge of the participants and players, and had to assure that everything was going well with my fellow ekonomistas. In the morning, while I was watching the hip-hop competition, my classmates gave me a cake, our traditional gift when there's a birthday celebrant.

In the afternoon, I was already tired. I had the option to watch the Mr. and Ms. CBEA or not. I was about to call it a day and go home, but Hannah told me to go and watch the whole show. I wondered why she told me to do so and made me intrigue.

During the show, Den texted me that he is one of the board of judges and he was on his way to our school. I got excited, and while waiting ,me and my classmates enjoyed the show. Time passed, and the show was about to end and he didn't appeared yet. I tried to call him, text him, and everything. I was already getting mad because he kept on rejecting my calls, nor replying immediately. I lost all hopes when he texted that he didn't make it because there was a breaking news and he had to go back to work. I was all pissed off, but I had to keep calm because I didn't want to ruin my birthday, but he already did ruin it somehow.

My laoageña classmates already left, i was the only one left, except from my classmates from Batac.

On my way home, I wanted to pray, but angriness kept on interfering my mind. I couldn't focus. I texted Czarina to accompany me to buy cake and food for a mini feast with my relatives. She came with Aian. After, I insisted them to go and eat somewhere because I was frustrated and everything, but they didn't want me to. So they accompanied me to the apartment. And then that's when everything made sense...

I opened my door and boom!

These liars planned a surprise birthday for me. I cried and didn't want to enter the door at first, cause i was in a state of anger and surprised at the same time.

They prepared a surprise video with my family and friends from Barcelona. Made me cry more and more.

Later on, we had dinner prepared by kuya Allen. We had games, and had a lot of F-U-N.

Indeed it's one of the best birthdays I've had. Thank you, guys. For all the effort, never mind the lying part and making me angry, I'm very thankful to have you guys in my life. You made my birthday unforgettable. You guys are the best!

Special thanks to the man, Denish, and to my very caring mom, for planing this. Kuya Allen for cooking, and the rest for decorating and for the friendship. Lucky to have you all.

The one who I got mad with. Silly person who lied to me like 3 times because of this surprise birthday party. Most effort award goes to you my dear!

Part 2: September 19, 2015

Before celebrating my birthday, I already planned to do this. Distribute food to 21 persons. And will make this a traditional action for my birthday from now on.

Thank you to Czarina+Aian for helping me and Den.