The best birthday party ever☆

I turned 21 years old on April. 17th. David hosted a party for my birthday and invited more than 45 people on that day.

 Everything in the picture is the birthday presents from friends of mine. I had never gotten such a lot of presents whole my life!! Thank you very much, all my dear friends.

Today, as a conversation class homework I'm going to write about how different to celebrate birthday.   Lots of people from different countries are in my party such as American, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian and so on.  They were separately gathering with the same country people, but some were not.

(American style)  They became high tension by alcohol and called my name over and over again to let me drink something strong alcohol for a shot. It was like this "Hey, come on birthday girl!!"
Moreover, we hugged each other so many times at the same time.

(Asian style)   They calmly celebrate a birthday like saying "happy birthday someone."

Americans express their emotion with movement of body to directly tell a feelings. On the other hand Asians keep a little distance to tell a feelings. I could exactly see how express a emotion.

Happy 1st year anniversary

A cupcakes for our 1st anniversary.

How fast a time goes by. I can't still believe that a year already passed since we started dating!!
I still feel like we've just started going out couple months ago haha. when I close my eyes, I feel that my memories I made with David are considerable amount, so I gotta take good care of all memories not to forget!! We really hope we can keep constant in love from now on, too.

Well, we had a little special dinner than usual. As you can see the 5 cupcakes from the picture, David and I bought them separately at the same day. While I'm waiting for David till he comes back home, I bought the two flower cupcakes and cooked some special dinner for this day. On the other hand he bought the chocolate cupcakes while I was preparing for dinner.
It was kinda funny. We were happy with this happening.  

How long didn't I update my blog!? Being lazy a little.
The winter vacation over and having started school from the end of March, a new school life has been a hectic than last quarter, fall quarter, and I'm getting used to the busy life little by little.

To: Taka
                Thank you for following my blog. I wanted to stop by your blog to say "thank you", but i seems like you don't have one. I hope you'll enjoy with my blog.

Well, this spring quarter, I'm taking a American culture conversation class which I learn about American culture and how to communicate with people. On Friday of each week as a assignment   I have to write a journal related to America's culture and my own culture and know a culture difference.
Today, I'll do it on my own blog! Let's get started!!


Hello, all!
Some of you may already know my name, but let me introduce myself.  I'm Anna (full name is Anamu Sasaki). I'm from Japan and will have been in Tacoma for a year and half by next month.

Today's my journal topic is "Don't Put Lots of Sugar into Coffee."

I like to spend my time drinking coffee in a coffee shop. Especially, Starbucks.
By the way, have you ever done people-watching in somewhere's coffee shop or fast food restaurant like the MacDonald? 
whenever I became bored or sleepy, i just want to do it for some reason.
Bunch of people make their own favorite coffee by themselves after purchase of coffee like putting a extra sugar into coffee. The sweetened coffee is sweet enough already, so I'm wondering why so many people want to make a sweeter coffee even a children...
How many of you think the same way as me?