Yes, last Saturday was my birthday, and I am proud to say I'm 24 now! (well can't hide it with public profile anyways, can you?) Younger than some, older than some, and always happy with my current age :)
I was, am and will be living one of greatest life experiences.
So grateful for everything that happened in my life. For everyone whom I met on my way.
Life is awesome :)
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Well if you ask me how was actually my birthday here in Australia - it was great.
It was finally Saturday! So the whole day of doing anything I want...
The weather was perfect, and I had a picnic in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens with some of my friends.

One of highlights was definitely a poetry reading competition. Everyone had to come up with a short poem in their own language, and well, the creativty of some people was great - if you don't know the real poem, just tell a story about shoes! hehe was soooo funny - oh well, there are a couple of videos, here's to evidence!..
Marina, Darius, Gabi, Ana, Jem, Su, Sid, me
(well there were only a couple of actual poems - Ana, Chinny, Marina, Gabi - the rest were - hmm - improvisations :)
I "lost" voleyball game, and to make my birthday experience great, my friends made me running around the park and shouting "I'm crazy", "I love Australia". yeah. lot's of fun here, right... :)
pretty happy crowd and myself actually :)


Me and Su (my favorite picture of the day!..)

Me, Su, Jem - our Happy House of 3 (YES, this is how we call our home :)

The evening continued with a dinner (yes, I cooked it myself!) with some more people, and then we went - but of course - partying! At 3.30 me, Jem and Su were in Chine town eating peking duck, and at 4.30 we were finishing the night with some more champaigne at home...
Oh yes, that was a great day :)
I'll definitely remember my australian birthday, with the warmest feeling :)
I'm 24, I graduated 2 years ago, I'm working 4th year full time, I was leading one of biggest youth organizations, in Russia and internationally. I lived in Belarus, Russia, Netherlands, Australia; I travelled 24 countries on all continents. I loved, I was heart-broken, I was winning and was failing (however winning more often I believe :) I made many dear friends, I grew, I understood more about life and about myself.
I was, am and will be living one of greatest life experiences.
So grateful for everything that happened in my life. For everyone whom I met on my way.
Life is awesome :)
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Well if you ask me how was actually my birthday here in Australia - it was great.
It was finally Saturday! So the whole day of doing anything I want...
The weather was perfect, and I had a picnic in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens with some of my friends.

One of highlights was definitely a poetry reading competition. Everyone had to come up with a short poem in their own language, and well, the creativty of some people was great - if you don't know the real poem, just tell a story about shoes! hehe was soooo funny - oh well, there are a couple of videos, here's to evidence!..
Marina, Darius, Gabi, Ana, Jem, Su, Sid, me
(well there were only a couple of actual poems - Ana, Chinny, Marina, Gabi - the rest were - hmm - improvisations :)
I "lost" voleyball game, and to make my birthday experience great, my friends made me running around the park and shouting "I'm crazy", "I love Australia". yeah. lot's of fun here, right... :)
pretty happy crowd and myself actually :)


Me and Su (my favorite picture of the day!..)

Me, Su, Jem - our Happy House of 3 (YES, this is how we call our home :)

The evening continued with a dinner (yes, I cooked it myself!) with some more people, and then we went - but of course - partying! At 3.30 me, Jem and Su were in Chine town eating peking duck, and at 4.30 we were finishing the night with some more champaigne at home...
Oh yes, that was a great day :)
I'll definitely remember my australian birthday, with the warmest feeling :)

Happy Birthday, Sveta!!!
I wonder what peom you wrote?:)
Svetik!!! S dnem varen'ya tebya!!!
Shalenogo kohannya tebe!!! I vsego samogo horoshego!!!
Tsemki :)))
Happy birthday, it seems that you had a great time there... I wish you the best now and ever and I do agree with you... life is awesome!!!
Hugs
Martha
you look so happy that it makes me happy from 10,000 kilometres away....
see you in december!!
thanks everyone - I do enjoy my time here, and images show that - I've never been more photogenic :))) some more nice moments and people i met, i am so satisfied with my time here :)