From my diary on Washington D.C. trip.

15/03/99 4:30 PM (D.C. Time)

 Right now I’m on the plane flying back to Arizona. I’m writing this so that I would have a good back up for my memory. Though nothing is really on the plan, D.C. trip is great! It’s one of the greatest trip I ever had in my life. Let’s start with the first day (12 March ’99). Once I arrived at Dallas, Texas. The weather was pretty bad there. The plane delayed for 2 hours. And on the flight, it went to a few disturbances (strom) for around an hour, it’s scary. I arrived at the Washington Regan National Airport at around 5:30 (D.C. Time). The first person I saw was probably one of the chap. His name is Bob. Then I waited for other girls with Bob. I met Anna from Austria. She look so much like my aunt “Na Tim”. For a while, we knew that other 2 girls didn’t wait for us, we went down and got to the bus.
 Once I got to the bus, Kathrin and Katrin from Vienna Austria, Germany said “Hi” to me and we became very good friend. Then there are Sila (Prisila) and Anna from Brazil which were so Brazilian. Along the way between the air port and the hotel (Marriots), Anna (gr.) told me that she is really interested in psychology and human mind which is very similar to me. I asked her about the school system in Austria, she said it’s a lot more difficult than in U.S.A.  Behind me there are a sick swiss guy which had a cold.
 Once we reached the hotel, we went to the room 358 to get the key from our chaps. My room was 368. Which is good because my roommate are very nice. First person I met was Jurg which pronounce “Yer-urk” from Switzerland, he’s nice. The fist thing he did was taking a shower. Then I met another roommate from Slovakia, his name is “Evo”, the first thing he did was going to the restroom. We thought another guy from Germany was not coming but he came very late at night. His name is “Robert”. That night we went to Hard Rock Café. It look just like Planet Holywood. I sat with Anna (Au) and Julie from Germany. Then we acted as we were “stupid tourist” by taking a lot of pictures in Hard Rock Café. Oh! It’s very cold outside. Before I went to Hard Rock, I met 3 Thai girls which were in the trip, I thought they were cute, but later on………. I tried to speak Thai with them but it didn’t work because it’s kind of strange feeling, probably because we speak to much English all the time. Their pronunciation were great!! I surprised.
 I could really count on how many time I talked to them on the trip. I hardly did at all. They were kind of stick together all the time. When we got back, Evo ,which was quite close to me because we talked a lot on the bus, need the money (cash) so he needed to go down to the Lobby Floor and get it from the ATM Machine. First he forgot his password but then he remembered it at last. After he got the money, there were girls which tried to use the telephone to call direct but couldn’t. So we tried to help them and it’s kind of Yummy because we came up with a lot of ideas and from the TV commercials such as that guy who dial himself “C-A-L-L-A-T-T”. Some time the operator picked up the phone but …. She said nothing but Spanish!!! Anyhow, it worked out at last. Their names were Julia and Katrin (both German). That night we tried to find pops (soda, coke, pepsi etc.) and found it then we watched a stupid but funny movie call something gun until 2:00 am. It’s very funny. Oh, we went to the pool that night but it’s closed so we went to the fitness instead. There we met 2K (Kathrin Au, Katrin Gr.) again and we knew each other better. The next morning, I , Evo, Jurg came down to the pool but it’s still closed, we found 2K again and we talked talked talked until the pool opened. I didn’t swim but they did. I still talked to those people in the pool though. After that, we went to find something to eat, I remembered that the chaps said that our breakfast room was the last room on one wing. When we found one of the hotel’s restaurant Evo, Jurg just went ahead and eat while I was saying that it’s the wrong one, they didn’t believe me. I and Robert went to the end and found the right room , we ate there. Then 2K followed and more people followed. (We got there first). Bastine asked me about Buddhism, It’s pretty interesting. After a big while we went to the National History Museum. Since it was not 10 am yet and the museum wouldn’t open until 10, we went to the middle park lead to the Capital. We took a lot of pictures. I, Evo, Robert, Jurg, 2K walked to see the good place to take the Capital’s picture. It was so cold that we walked and hold each other arms like in the Waltz Disney toons. Then we got back, this was one of the best moment in my life. The museum was opened then.
 We went in and see things. Evo took a picture with the picture of the first ladies. We have so much fun inside. We walked around, at one part, the stuff from Austria was not there and Katrin was very mad. After that we went to the old town Alexandria. It is a great pretty town with a lot of things to shop.  We went to McDonald for our lunch but I didn’t have any because I don’t want to. We started telling out problems and our experiences in USA. Some had problems with host family, etc… (omitted .. because the note do not fit PG13). Then we went back to the bus, before that we went to one large book store I got the book called “When the time begin” which is quite the scientific evidences about aliens in this planet according to the ancient Civilizations.  In front of the great white building there is a big place somewhat like a park with a funny looking statue, we wait for the bus there. We played sing and run like crazy especially the 2K. Then we got in the bus. We stopped at some important places to take pictures such as the supreme court, white house etc. We play so much and have so much fun.
 We went to mouth Vermont, the George Washington’s mansion. It was very cold. While I’m waiting in line to get in. I talked to Julia and Katrin (another Katrin). They first told me that they come from Egypt, but I didn’t believe them because they look like Europeans. The truth is they are from Germany. And they are my best friends also.  We took quite a few pictures together. When we got to the front of the mansion, they was a woman dress up as Washington’s wife came out and greet us, she didn’t look like a Woman to me. Then my friends asked me to say some things in Thai, so I used my fingers to count how many words I am saying.  Some how it look very funny and became a great joke of the day. At one room where the tour guide told us that Washington’s body was kept before they moved him to the tomb, it’s a dining room. Robert said “One the chair?”  Then this became another great joke, when we got out we took a picture of us (Me, Robert, Evo, Julia, Katrin.) by the automatic function of my camera. It was in front of the Ptomic river and also in front of the mansion.  I felt so good there. Then I walked with Jurg, K2 to the tomb, they sang and danced German thing all the way.  I like them very much. Then we got back to the bus and the Chaperone asked us to switch the seat so we could know more friends. I went to the back of the bus knew (…) English guy, Amma (London) Clairol, Isabella (Brazil). When we got off the bus to go to the cruise I met … from New Zealand. I ate a big spoon of White Wasabi, I didn’t know that there is white wasabi so it made me… VOOPEEE!!! Then I went up to the roof to see the Ptomic river at night. It’s very beautiful. ----- (omitted, not PG13)---- Then, I talked to Amma, I really like her English accent, it’s so cool!! She told me that she want to study in Psychology. It’s the first time I ever met a girl that interested in Psychology. I invited her to come to Thailand some day.  I talked to Julia about her interests in Music, especially in Jazz. She was the best in her school on one competition. Her dad is a big band director, she really enjoy music.