Five Birthdays!! :D

So, as you aught to know if you bother to read my blog, my birthday was on December 30th. I turned 17 ... probably the most boring number ever but definitely not the most boring birthday ever :)

On December 28th my second (current) host family had a name day celebration for my host dad and brother (both names Janós) with some friends. They very sweetly worked my birthday in there with a lovely cake and the cutest (and most incorrect) rendition of the English happy birthday song I have ever heard.

On December 29th Molly came to visit me for my birthday :) We spent some time with the Szegedians :)

 We got to say in a fancy hotel for a girls' night and had a lot of fun doing almost absolutely nothing which is always the best kind of fun.

 We also went over to my first family's house on the 30th and hung out there for hours before Molly caught her train home :)

Needless to say the birthday girl won at Uno :)

Then on the 31st I headed to Pécs for New Years, which I spent with seven exchange students :) Then on the second Tati, Mary, and I did a chocolate fountain, which I have claimed partially for my birthday considering the fact that I got my cards from them that day ;)

We were stuffed with chocolate but were still having fun playing with the fountain so we made these homemade Pocky for the road :)

 Then we lapsed into food comas on Mary's heated floor :)

Directly after arriving home from Pécs on the 4th of January I headed to my first host family's house for a late New Years celebration :) It was a blast. I learned a magic trick and got to spend time in a very homey celebration filled with little kids in one room and socializing adults in the other. It was just like a celebration we would've had when I was a kid. So I was having a blast already when I was called down for a surprise: Like thirty people singing happy birthday in Hungarian as my dad carried out my cake (complete with firework).

This is a home made cheesecake with mandarin slices and kiwi on top :D My host mom is the best!!!

And this is me blowing out the candles :)

They made me cut it ... Bad plan. All the pieces were in layers though everyone was nice enough to blame it on the guy serving :)

This is Birthday number four in case you are counting :) This is the winner :D

And after dinner we all just hung out, listened to some Mexican music courtesy of Octavio, and even danced a little bit :)

And, finally, birthday number five was on January 7th when I got my package from home, three cards from my daddy, a package from nana, and a package from Brian all on the same day :D

My father is very clever ... and more patient than I ever would have given him credit for :) 

Thank you everyone :D Happy Birthday to me!!