TRIP TO THE US!

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a beautiful country with even more beautiful people.

The country welcomed us at the WASHINGTON airport with a RAINBOW! I got over whelmed at that very moment!

On our way from the airport to the Hotel in a bus, the only difference i could find between INDIA and the US is that the States was just more clean. The climate, the topography etc seemed to be d same. I also became the first one to enter an argument with the faculty on the trip! And also managed to get my passports confiscated! I was RAGED and RESTLESS then, and also taken it up to show the faculty what I was made up of.

Reaching the hotel we got our room keys. Famished and tired we enter the room and see our COMPLEMENTARY dinner lying on the table (a packet of cookies, small lays, yucky PRETZELS! and a bottle of water) we now knew what a task it would be to arrange for a decent meal over here!

Tried to contact our houses that we had reached safely but all in vain as it was very late at night and all the shops had shut!

A few friends invited me and my room mates as they were going to a local club for a party, but we decided to stay back as we were rely tired and had not slept all during the flight as well.

Having our dinner we fell fast asleep!

The next day we get up at around 11am and realise that we are hungry again and we couldn't eat any more chips/cookies/sandwiches and also that we wanted to eat something that made us feel like humans! so we decided to go to a local INDIAN RESTAURANT (MILAN) where we hogged like there was no tomorrow! finally satisfying our hunger we decided not to go back to the hotel and to check out the scene, we then went to WallMart, Best Buy and a couple of more malls and reached back the hotel by around 6pm, when we heard we had our VIVAS on the next days cases to be discussed in the DARDEN UNIVERSITY. DOOMED ! we thought we are, somehow we read the cases and fared well in the vivas too.

Next day, early morning after breakfast we leave for our first session at the DARDAN UNIVERSITY. On reaching the University, the very sight of the university entrance enthralled me as to what was in store for me here! We entered our classroom which was a STATE OF THE ART classroom with all modern eminities of projectors, moving white boards, cameras etc.

The professor welcomed us to the university and we began with the first case. Few of us KICKED ASSES by performing exceedingly well in the sessions was an understatement! Then the lunch break, where we were served vegetables covered in ROTI (rumaali roti) which was not edible at all! but famished we somehow ate it.

For the entire week our schedule was more or less the same. Lectures from 8.30am to 5.30pm reach hotel by 6pm rest for a while, study for the next days classroom sessions, have dinner, go out for a bit come back and sleep.

FOR A WEEK we had to eat the same old sandwich roll for lunch which we readily skipped most of the time and stayed hungry or just over fruits and soft drinks/coffee

Finally after a week we get our certificates from the DARDAN UNIVERSITY stating that we had attended a session there and we left for WASHINGTON the very same day.

WASHINGTON being a bigger city and also the capital of the US had much more to offer.

We reached late night so the first night @ Washington we just went out for dinner, came back to the hotel and slept!

Next day we all decided to go on a tour of WASHINGTON DC and then after site seeing all day we would go to some club at night and then return to the hotel. While our visit to the WHITE HOUSE me and four of my friends some how got separated from the rest of the group and even after a lot of struggle we couldn't find them again.

So we decided that we would rather spend the day in a smaller group as the others were no where to be found. After seeing around for a few hours we decided to go back to the hotel, freshen up and then leave to visit a few malls around. It was indeed an eventful day and we enjoyed very much.

The next day everyone decided to go to NEW YORK CITY but we decided to stay back as it was about 5hours from Washington and also that we were not allowed to stay back and had to reach by the night. We got up late, went for lunch and went site seeing again, was a beautiful experience sitting @ the Washington Memorial and looking at the lake from there while listening to music on my ipod.

***this is it 4 now..will write about the rest f d trip pretty soon! ***