Friday 2 July 2010

My Birthday!

From what I’ve seen this past year, my teachers don’t celebrate their birthdays at Andeok School. So today, I decided to keep my mouth shut.

Monday, June 14th. I received a wonderful call from my family this morning. Complete with wishes of a Happy Birthday and a special piano piece performed by my lovely sister, my day started out on a good note. However, the few hours that remained of my morning slowly turned sour as I continued my day with my craziest class of the week – my Andeok Middle School Grade 1 students. With their unrelenting lack of discipline, they were the start to every one of my beautiful weeks, draining me even before I could begin my second class. I certainly did feel older today…older, more tired, and my back strained from standing all day…

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In the evening I felt much better. Ken made me a steak dinner, and surprised me with stargazing on the roof. He had cleaned up all of the intricately-spun cobwebs, watered down the black tar on the roof, and set up candles and balloons all over the roof’s edges. A blanket was laid out underneath the stars, and a cool breeze swirled around us. I lay down on the blanket and was as happy as ever. Ken disappeared for a few moments, and upon return, walked up the stairs of the roof, coming towards me with a tub of coffee-chocolate ice cream, topped with broken chocolate pieces, and lined with thin, glowing candles. I made my wish twice (since the wind blew out half of the candles before I could do so).

It was the best surprise that I could have wished for on my birthday. At the end of the night, I was certainly one year older, but with Ken, I felt one year younger, one year happier, one year more loved…

- Jess

4 comments:

  1. I'm glad that your birthday ended well. Ken is so creative! Love that romantic rooftop idea!

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  2. Did Ken know that you're a star lover? When I miss you so much, I look up beautiful stars at night above me then you smile at me and we talk. I'm glad you had a peaceful time with Ken and twinkle stars. xxxxxooooo

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  3. Ken, I told you she would love it. I'm glad you followed up on my idea :)

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  4. pffffffffft yeah you wish.
    My "romance genes" definitely didn't come from you dad hahahahaha.

    - Ken

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