19!

I got so spoilt!

Monday night (the 9th) I came up to the flat and discovered that Izzy and Em had planned to order my fave chinese takeout and suprise me with it! Ultimately that plan failed, because the restaurant was closed, but the thought was lovely! We had Indian with some wine, it was so nice! Skyped my family and had some quality time with the whole extended family - my cousins are getting so big!!

Tuesday I woke up, then promptly jumped back into bed as Aisling started yelling 'GET INTO BED!!' 'Can I get dres..'' 'NO! YOU RUIN EVERYTHING!!!' Hahaha. Rose and Aisling brought me in birthday muffins (hark back to the days of good old 9E!) and sang me happy birthday to 'wake me up'. I opened up the parcel that my parents sent me (which had arrived the day before), which was the best parcel in the world. Contained Aussie stuff, like timtams and milo and a toy koala. and a gorgeous pandora charm. Izzy had her camera out, and ocumented my whole day hahaha. I didn't want to go down to work, but I'm glad I did!

Yve was waiting for me in my Form 1 classroom with a massive badge that said 'IT'S MY BIRTHDAY', which flashed...the girls were very excited and P. led about 3 renditions of 'Happy Birthday Miss Peters', then I got drowned in hugs. After Form 1, I had PE with the Preps, and the gem of the day was this.
'Miss Peaches, how old are you now?'
'How old do you think I am Jess?'
*she thinks hard...* '45!'

The rest of the day was spent doing usual stuff, but with more of a spring in my step because I'm 19 now! When I was at lunch, my Form 1s came in and started up another improptu chorus of 'Happy Birthday'. It was so sweet! I ran over and we all had a big 1S group hug, I'll miss that class loads after summer term! A. (one of the Spanish girls I take for EAL) knocked softly at the staffroom door, handed me a homemade bday card, and gave me a huge bear hug - heart melted. After work ended I bolted up to the flat to leave for London with Aisling and Rose to see LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL.

Needless to say, I cried with happiness. I kid you not, I was smiling so hard throughout the entire thing I'm suprised my face didn't explode. It was so much fun, and we got AMAZING seats. Last minute cheap tickets, and we were smack bang in the middle. It's karma I tell you, karma. The people around us were very amused, when 'So Much Better' started Rose and I grabbed each other and exclaimed 'oh my god this is our song!!!'. The tube ride back to High Wycombe consisted of us singing every Legally Blonde (and Starkid) song that we knew. But that wasn't all!

When we arrived at the flat, I was dragging my feet and wanting to get into bed. I was the last to get into the flat, and as I opened the door all the lights went on and there was a massive yell of SUPRISE!!! My beautiful gappies had thrown me a little suprise party! The living room table was groaning under the weight of food and cake. I got so many more presents, really thoughtful and lovely. I'm so lucky, what did I do to deserve to be so spoilt?! :)

Today I just bathed in post-birthday bliss. I got a couple more bday cards from the girls, and B. even got me a little teddy bear! (It was unintentionally white and purple...WOAHHH BOOMBOOMBOOM YES) We were all exhausted, but I had a lovely birthday. Have been living off cake and lollies for the past day or two.

The Uppers and IVs have their french orals next week, so I'm helping them during lunchtimes and class, and some of the boarders after dinner. I remember feeling stressed about orals, its the worst feeling ever. Not lonf now until half-term, this year is going way too fast.