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Descriptive Essay About Happy Birthday

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Happy birthday to me! It feels like 15 degrees Celsius in Los Angeles. But, it’s 59 degrees Fahrenheit. I still couldn’t get my Fahrenheit and mile sense right even after the eighth straight year here. Most of my friends from India wished me half a day before. While some took special care in wishing me at twelve by the Pacific Time Zone. The time difference is handsome. The best wish came from my mother, who could never cater to the current technologies. She called me. The old voice call feels more real than the 3D-calling prevalent these days. Usually, I am not a person who would boast of her birthdays but, this deserved to be documented because it is my last year in the States. So here, I write about how my 27th starts.
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I remember during my initial days at UCLA, when I took on Teaching Assistantship, some students would not obey me and instead hurl racial banters at me. I was totally let down but, I am glad that I took them as opportunities to fight and rise above everything. After all, if it was easy, it would not be worth narrating. My belief, ‘The best is yet to come!’ kept me standing amidst all the difficulties. To the foreigners who became family, thanks for joining me on my special day!
To the people who made it possible, my parents... Bringing me back to the present, my glasses notify me to book tickets. My parents will be visiting California within a fortnight. Its Diwali season in India yet, no discounts on flight bookings. Sheer Luck!
The evenings at the University are exuberant. This campus never sleeps. I took this benefit to join dance classes. I started here to learn ‘Hip-hop’ but these people got so flabbergasted by my ‘Kathak’ skills that everyone agreed on including short ‘Kathak’ sessions for a change. On my demand, we tried classical on a Bollywood song today.
It is almost supper time now. Getting back to my apartment, my glasses buzz again, ‘Check the scholarship applications.’ It is that time of the year when applications for the Rishi

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