Monday, August 20, 2007

Greetings from Washington, DC

So, I'm finally here. In the capital of the USA, the center of politics, neat city without so typical American skyscapers but on the other hand full of museums of different types.

Camp finished on last Sunday, August 12th and we were leaving the facility next day, on Monday morning. I don't like saying good buy, but this went pretty smoothly. I forgot about worse things that happened in camp and concentrated to say goodbye to people I wanted. And even to people I firstly didn't want to, like to Jonesy, cook from kitchen who I didn't have very good relation with. He thanked me for good job, but it can't so easily fix what happened (well, it wasn't so bad, just annoying sometimes). We left later than we were supposed to and in addition we stopped in another camp to drop some guys who are working for a postcamp there now and in the town in the bank so some guys could withdraw poor money they earned ;) That's why we got delayed, which was for me, Tom and Vita, other 2 Czech guys pretty bad, because are bus from New York to DC was supposed to leave in 1:30PM. Well, we got close to Port Authority, main NYC bus station at 1:20 and we were running to find our bus. Very nice experience, especially when I need have to piss sooo badly...

At the last minute we found our almost leaving bus and we got on the board. And thanks God they had a bathroom in there, so I didn't have to destroy the glass to get out of the bus, because it was really very urgent. Anyway, I'm not gonna annoy you with my past urinal problems ;) So, after four hours ride we got to Washington. And fortunately there was Bob Doubek, I was supposed to stay with in DC, waiting for us. We dropped guys in their hostel and continue to my new home. We stopped by the Tomas Masaryk Statue at the Embassy Row Street. Bob is a president of organization called American friends of the Czech Republic and he was also director of building of this memorial to first Czechoslovakian president. Bob is very interested older guy among others interested in the Czech Republic, with Czech heritage and working for American government. He was a projector of Vietnam War Memorial, one of the most important memorials in DC. All around his house there are pictures with Clinton, Gore, Havel and other famous and important people.

We are leaving in neat family house in beautiful (and probably pretty rich) neighborhood with his 22 years old son James, James's friend Jessie who is attending college here and Bob's friend Bob, the director of golf courses. All of them are very nice and interesting people. You can check out some pictures of our house and my room:

(btw. about work and other things later, now I'm going to bed to be fresh for tomorrow)

The right house is ours.

Back of our house.

Well, this is little messy, but it's still my room ;)

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