birthday

It's my birthday today but according to the lunar calendar it is also 'people's day' which means that it is supposed to be everybody's birthday according to Chinese customs which is why I woke up this morning and received a red pocket money from mom. And so in class I told the kids it's my birthday then Phoebe says 'it's also my birthday!' and Wendy says 'it's also my birthday!' and Felix explains to the class today is 'people's day' which means that it's celebration of birth for every human and then I said but it's really my birthday and it really really is but they don't believe me so I smacked the table comically and said it again, annoyed, and they all laughed, and I said 'happy birthday everyone, see you next week,' and they file out of classroom and some of them told me happy birthday, even though birthday is not a big deal to me anymore but I remember when I was their age birthday was a big deal and they remind me of that feeling the way they came up to me and said to me happy birthday and Iris asked me 'how old are you?', I said 26 but she heard 36.