In the words of Ben and Arvin from Wii Like to Podcast- "Happy Bithday Will". In pretty much the coolest event that ever happened, my mom e-mailed the guys from WLTP, telling them it was my birthday, and they sent me a personalized video and an autographed picture of them. And this was only the beginning.
But before I describe the minutia of Will's April 9th , let me start with the minutia of Will's March 28th and Will's April 4th. Both quite enjoyable dates, the 28th was trivia night and the 4th was my actual birthday party.
Trivia night was by far the most entertaining thing the school has organized out of school. The concept was simple; pack a ton of people into the cafeteria (comfyish chairs), let them provide their own snacks (no restraints), and throw trivia questions at them (trivia rocks), for prizes (hello more chocolate and giftcards!). The only downside to this was that I didn't get to meet Regis Philbin or Alex Trebek, which is a total bummer because I thought they were the only people with license to ask trivia questions! the people in my team also took this as an opportunity to give eachother codenames, and incidentally, they were all birds. In other words, Agent Chickadee, at your service.
I didn't even think I was going to have a birthday party earlier in the year, but then I thought about the availability of good, junk food snacks in Senegal and decided that I needed a last hoorah, you know? It was pretty cool, only 2 people ended up actually coming but you can only play 4 player in Brawl anyway! I've heard that getting some dudes into a basement and eat candy while playing video games for 4 hours is "such a teenage guy thing", and I've now decided to now spread that tradition across the world and to all age groups. if anyone has any idea how I could do that, drop me a line and I'll get right on it.
And now, without further ado, Will's April 9th. All in all, it was an awesome day. Unfortunately, this year it wasn't on Good Friday so I did have to go to school, but even that couldn't suck the awesome out of my birthday. Before that, I had breakfast in bed, a Martin tradition (mmmmm poptarts), and got a small present on the tray (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Yes, you are allowed to drool now)
But of course, the best part of the day was the part when I wasn't at school. We got Pizza Hut pizza for dinner, a rare delicacy, and then some awesome cake. grandma's recipe hasn't failed yet, although Mom thinks it had the essence of "swampy bog" in it. Then came everyone's favorite part of Birthday's: presents. And before anyone else asks, I got:
A sweet iPod Docking speaker
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
My picture of Washington, D.C. with my class framed
My French Coach for DS (pretty much the most fun way to learn a new language)
Weights (laugh now, whimper in terror as I come back to the U.S. a veritable incredible Hulk)
and a DS charger Grip from Amazon that's coming on Monday :D
plus the video and picture from Ben and Arvin
Thanks Mom and Dad!!
So, yes, the birthday loot was flowing and I'm still taking in the music I got with the Copelands' iTunes Gift card (Thank you!!) and its playin' loud in the speaker while I play My French Coach while I lift weights with my feet and watching Sam play Zelda and the D.C. picture is on the wall and I'm watching the Wii Like to Podcast video and waiting for the Charger grip.
Oh yes.
Well, I'd better be going. I need to go see is "comfyish" is a real word.
-Will
"There is nothing in life that can't be solved by a well-placed Falcon Punch"
