My Career as an Event Coordinator [Lily]

Yesterday, Clara had her seventh birthday party. At first, we weren’t going to have anyone besides our family there, but then we decided to have Clara’s friends over for just cake. So my mom and I are going out to Kookie Jar, one of the best bakeries in Kolkata, and when we get there they give us a book of cakes, and we find the ideal cake for Clara – a Fairy Land cake. Then we see a little card that said MINIMUM SIZE: 4 POUNDS. It doesn’t sound that big, but it turns out it feeds forty one people at the least. But it’s a fairy land cake, and anyone who knows Clara well would know she is crazy for fairies. So we just decide to open up our house to all thirty kids in our apartment – just for cake. But then they’re expecting us to have snacks and games! So we go out and buy balloons, three bottles of soda, four bags of Lays potato chips, and vegetable puffs. Then we come home and make cheese and mustard and peanut butter and jelly finger sandwiches (now, when I say that, I don’t mean we put all those toppings on one sandwich, I mean we made two kinds of finger sandwiches: cheese and mustard sandwiches being one, and peanut butter and jelly being the other) and Emma and I blew up balloons and put streamers all over the walls (I actually managed to make a big princess on the wall out of streamers) and then we were told by our neighbor to hide all our valuable stuff or the kids would destroy it. At five o’clock, the kids were supposed to come, but living in India, that means five thirty. Oh my goodness. They were the loudest bunch you could imagine. I was supposed to pour the soda, but I couldn’t even reach the table, they shoved me out of the way! Five seconds after you poured a bowl of chips, they were gone. Thank goodness they only stayed till six!

After the party, (and cleaning up the potato chips and cake crumbs that covered the floor) we went out to a nice dinner at Red Hot Chili Peppers and got great Chinese food and fancy drinks. Well, all in all, I guess the kids had a good time, so it doesn’t matter I almost went deaf from being in the same room as those kids.