I just returned from Washington DC yesterday, and it was quite the experience. One cool thing was that my trip was paid for, but better than that I met all sorts of people that are like me! White people that speak multiple and less spoken languages. White people speaking Mandarin, Arabic, Korean, Thai, and a lot more. And while at first it was a little weird to be with all these white people speaking foreign languages (there was only a few Asians and black people), it was very cool. Because nobody blinked when you said what you do. Pretty awesome:) I am so used to long pauses or people thinking I am strange. I also met one girl who is going to be in Hangzhou next year, so that is nice. It's nice to know one person, other than my penpal (who I haven't heard from in a while) that will be there. She is from Mississippi. Here a some pictures of the couple places I got to visit--I only had about 2 hours of free time. So I was running around! It was cool though, to see all these places. I wanted to see the WWII memorial, but alas, did not. I'll probably have a lot of time when I have to move to DC after I graduate... but not going to worry about that right now. Final exams are soon... and things are crazy. But it'll be ok.