Last Monday was my birthday, and I was feeling a bit anxious about it because: 1. it was on a Monday (who likes that? NOONE!!!!), and 2. how could it possibly fun without my old friends? We couldn’t go to my favorite restaurants or walk around and window shop down Michigan Ave in Chicago. I was not going to be woken up by my parents with birthday hugs and singing or yummy breakfast.
Or at least, so I thought……
I am blessed to have the friends I have here at Holy Cross. They really know how to make a girl feel special, and this past birthday is at the top of my favorite birthdays. (Right up there with the time my parents and I went to Disney World for my 7th birthday.) In honor of my wonderful experience, I have compiled a list of things that you can do for your friends next year at college in order to make their day special.
Top 10 things you can to make your friend feel special:
- If your friend is a night owl and takes showers at night, go into the bathroom while she is in the shower at midnight and sing Happy Birthday at the top of your lungs to her. (This has a great effect because you scare everyone else in the showers too.)
- Once you know she is awake on the morning of their birthday, knock quietly on her door and when she answers, hug the snot out of her.
- If your friend is a coffee or tea lover, give her a mug for their birthday. It does not matter if she already have one, I promise. Everyone can use at least two.
- Decorate her door with streamers and put Happy Birthday banners all over the door, bulletin board, and white board.
- Get balloons of that person’s favorite color, blow them up, and write funny messages on them. Then, when you know she is not her room, get her roommates to open the door and put the balloons on her bed and desk.
- If you have time, get a card and have everyone on the hall sign it.
- If she does not have any food allergies, order a cake, cookies, or special cupcake for her.
- If you participate in a club or sport with this person, make sure you tell the superiors it is her birthday. Then embarrass her by getting everyone to sing to her at the end of practice/ meeting.
- If you don’t have much homework, watch a movie together, go out to dinner, or just hang out together.
- Tell she looks extra nice today, and how happy you are that she was born, so that you could be friends with her.
In case you were wondering, several of the things on the list happened to me. I will leave up to you to decide which you think happened……. 🙂
