Karaoke Night!!!

One of the teacher's in my group, Skyla, had her birthday on Saturday! The Chinese teachers had a great idea to celebrate: We had a Karaoke night! So we went to the top floor of a hotel that was nearby. The place was totally decked out- shiny black walls and black floors with sparkly lights and glitter. Totally a Chinese karaoke studio. It was awesome!

 

My group (Chelsey, Becca, Lindsay, Teresa, Skyla, Laura and I) and also some of the Chinese teachers from the school (Annie, LuLu, Katie and her 5 yr old son Ryan, LuLu's husband and LuLu's friend David) all came. It was cool to have both groups there because we got to hear some cool (weird/funny) Chinese songs. Annie is a pretty good singer, and so she sang a lot of really neat songs for us. Also, LuLu's husband is a singer in a band, and he sang "You Are Not Alone" by Michael Jackson, and he did amazing! It was really fun.

 

The Chinese teachers wanted to hear a strange array of American music from us. They picked out a lot of Michael Jackson, which is great, and also a lot of old Avril Lavigne songs (like Sk8er Boi haha). We also got a few Brittney Spears songs (Lucky, Hit Me Baby One More Time) and some old Backstreet Boys songs. It was really funny to hear them all again. We surprised ourselves by knowing a lot of the lyrics still.

 

We had a BLAST. We sang and danced and goofed off and had birthday cake. It was GREAT! What a fun night!

My 20th Birthday!

Cassie, Brittany, Me and Andee!

Me and Andee-poo!

Megan, Becca and her sweet jacket, Jenny and Brittany!

Me, Megan, Chelsey, Jenny and Becca!

Me and Cassie!

Me and Brittany!

Me and Chelsey!

I turned 20 yesterday and had a great birthday! I have the most amazing friends that I LOVE!!!! I got such cool presents! Like Dr. Pepper pajama pants, an Orlando Bloom/Will Turner Pez dispenser, A really pretty neclace made from a geode, and personalized fruitsnacks in my favorite flavors and so much more awesome stuff! And my parents got me a really cool camera with way fun settings and I took lots of cool pictures to "scrapbook" the night. So bear with me :)

We went to Firehouse for dinner and had really good bread and Cordon Bleu pizza with this alfredo sauce that is to die for. And I got a free f'zhookie dessert for my birthday! They are like 20X better when they are free I swear. We also had cake back at my apartment and it was really yummy :) and all my friends sat and wasted their precious time just for me. I am so spoiled ha ha. Thanks guys!!! You are all THE BEST! I love my friends!