A Chinese Dinner, Finally!

Today is considered the best day in D.C. so far, because I met up with NUS friends! Audrey came to find me at the EU delegation (it was so nice of her to walk in the cold to come find me!) and Gabriel caught up with us later. We ordered chinese fried rice, tom yam beehoon, gong bao chicken, vegetables and tofu and dumplings! It is my best dinner in 2 weeks. Sniff* Audrey was rather incredulous that I am already craving so much for home food when it's only my second week away from home, haha! But I think the good dinner and familiar company really lifted my moods quite a bit for tonight!

Before we went for dinner, Audrey brought me to walk around Georgetown and I learnt abit more about DC. Owing to historical legacy, DC is not considered a state but rather a 'neutral' district. That is why their representative in the Congress does not have a vote and according to one cab driver, could only "make a lot of noise" in the Congress. Audrey also mentioned that this explains the omnipresent posters shouting "DC Statehood, Yes we can!" that we see around almost every corner. Then we went to this famous Georgetown cupcake shop, from where I bought a small US$3.03 cupcake, a whopping price for its size! I didn't check out the price before ordering partly because the prices were blocked behind the counter and partly because I thought since I was there, I might as well get one for a tasting experience.

Then we walked over to the Georgetown Uni main campus. The campus is beautiful, with its clock tower and stony rustic feel. We went inside and sat outside a lecture theatre where I was supposed to eat my muffin, but I didn't really feel like eating it because I had eaten a double choc cookie just 1 hr before that. So we talked for a while, then took a bus to the restaurant.

Taking a bus in DC is not any different from London. One ticket one price, but no transfer slip! haha, Audrey told me that they just stopped giving transfer slips a few weeks before I came. But overall the ride is affordable, US$1.35. It costs CAD$2.45 in London!

Well I guess today is the most eventful and enjoyable day for me in DC because I was able to visit 3 museums in the morning: Air and Space, National Gallery, and Natural History (the ones I really want to visit). I was most impressed by the art pieces in the Art Gallery. I realised that I am a quite a paintings person. It is rather therapeutic to just peer into the painting and try to observe and absorb every detail and interpret their meaning/subject's expression. One of the paintings depicting a cheeky looking younfg girl reminds me of Taiqi! Haha....I was glad I visited the National Gallery. And it was housed in a very majestic building too! And above all I managed to meet up with friends from nus! That is really a bonus.

I'll try to find out where the post office is tomorrow. I shall send my first postcard home!