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This year I spent my birthday in Japan! I was a little nervous and sad that I wouldn’t get to spend the day with my friends and family from back home, but I was happy to finally have the chance to spend it with my boyfriend!! I was super lucky because my birthday landed on a Saturday this year! However, the day before my birthday I had work at a junior high school. The principal of the school was super nice and wrote me a note and left it on my desk. Plus, many of the students remembered my birthday too! One class in particular all burst into song the moment I walked into the room! One of my private students also gave me this super cute pen. What can I say, I like cats! Haha! This is literally my favorite pen ever now! Now on to the real event. I spent my actual birthday with my boyfriend. First, he surprised me with this display! It was super sweet and the first time that anyone has done anything like this for me, so I was touched. He called it foreigner style! Haha! Cleaning up the balloons, however, was not so fun! Haha! After that, we headed into Nagoya! First, we went to a new curry restaurant that he found on Instagram! The curry wasn’t quite Japanese or Indian style. Either was it was spicy and delicious!!! I ordered a hard boiled egg with mine! It was amazing! The chicken wing was probably my favorite part though! After are bellies were plum full, we did a bit of window shopping! Finally, we needed to eat cake!! It was my birthday so it is absolutely necessary! We went to Harbs! My Japanese friend recommended it to me a few months ago. Supposedly, it is a restaurant from New York, but either way, I have never had it! I chose a banana creme pie. The portions were huge!! Needless to say, I had a food baby! After that, we did a three hour session of karaoke!! I love karaoke, so I sang my heart out! Haha! It started to get late, but we weren’t hungry yet, so we decided to get some takeout on the way home. We tried another new restaurant! They had quite healthy looking food. I ordered a chicken salad with lemon salt dressing. I ate it when we finally got home! It was amazing!! However, I ate too much and got a stomach ache. It probably didn’t help that I also bought some macaroons on the way home! I picked the olives off! I was really nervous about really missing my family. I am not going to lie, I did a little, but luckily my friends sent me a package filled with foods that I was missing. It really helped me feel better about it all. Plus, I was lucky that my boyfriend planned a really fun day for me! Here is to twenty-two!! How do you like to spend your birthday?