Dia del Nino but more importantly, my birthday!

The past few days have been very entertaining. In short, it was two days dedicated to me! Day of kid and my birthday. I can't understand this day of the kid. All Chilean families walk around the street, giving their kid anything they want. The spoiled little kids get to go to movies on the street, sing on stages, get their face painted and do anything they want to. This is one day where they do no hear no... and its disgusting! hahahha. I even saw a child marking his territory on a tree while waiting for a micro. The streets were so crowded and so was the mall. I can't imagine how many cheese pizza's we would've sold at this festival.
Moving on to Aug. 11, 2008, 20 years since I was born, I fell of sugar mountain. However, the fall wasn't so bad when the beaches caught me. My birthday in Chile was very entertaining. I got up in the morning, at a tasty bowl of fruit, went back to bed and had a very leisurely morning getting ready to go to class at 2. After returning from my Spanish class, my friend Alisha and I went shopping.
We went into this tiny little shop where the shop owner began speaking with us. She was very enthusiastic. Moments later, a lady who lived in New York came in and announced she didn't like black people... and after that, the shop owners daughter came in with a 10 day old baby. Sooo little. The mom and daughter had a fight because the mom drank a beer before the baby came in, and the daughter was afraid that breathing on the baby might intoxicate the little thing. I just laughed. Shortly after this, Alisha told the shop owner it was my birthday, she was very exited, gave me a warm hug and then preceded to give me jewels for my cell phone as a gift.
Other than that, my friend got me chocolate, my mom gave me earrings, my sister some jewelery, I received a little leather box with Chile written on it, and a coin purse from my dad, with a beautiful picture, my name and the date written on it. It is very special. At 7, my friends came over for an "once" or tea time. This was very special, we had cheese, chicken with avocado and tuna sandwiches, sopapilla covered in syrup, fresh tasty hot chocolate, chocolate nut bread, and a delicious strawberry torte. We were stuffed! They sang happy birthday to me, and tried to stick my face in the cake. Thank goodness to my experience in Mexico, they weren't tricky enough. After filling ourselves, my papa brought out green olives and champagne.
It was wonderful to have my friends meet my family, and we enjoyed ourselves all night. As many of my birthdays, it was spent traveling, and will be on I will never forget.
I have to get ready for school now, but I wish you all a spectacular day.
Un abrazo
xoxo... Kati