GYLC Early Day Arrival

GYLC Early Day Arrival July, 10 2011

So arrived to dc.. got the deserved stares of ayoung arab exotic lookin girl arriving to a business/working capital.. wtf? I know right? Anyways got my luggage and looked for sim cards but couldn’t find any so I bought those pay phone cards n called mother dearest to relief her from the stress she was in. it was around 7am in dc and 1pm in in ku. Some arab guy knew I spoke Arabic and recommended I take the hotels shuttle and not a taxi since they were expensive. It was either wait 5-6 hours for the shuttle or go to the hotel myself and see what happens. I took a cab and yeah 15-30 minutes later 60 dollars outta my pocket. It didn’t matter.. I sure as hell wasn’t going to wait alone in an airport with two suitcases for a shuttle. On the way to the hotel my eyes began to hurt from the amazing scenery, ofcourse ive never seen anything like it before! Perfect streets no cracks, all trees were GREEN and living! There wasn’t any traffic and roads had 3-4 lanes and divided into three. One for taxis and buses, one for everyone else and one for coming back. The taxi driver was new to dc it was his second day on the job and he was extremely friendly… he also happened to tell mention his life story and that hes doing this for his daughter, so she could go to school. He work in California before. Just fyi. Since I had to go through it, you shall listen to it too. Yeah so the scenery was amazing, clean too (SHOCKER) Americans love their laws.. and their green grass( they are very protective on tha matter) after arriving to the Sheraton I found out that check in was at 3 pm.. it was still around 7am. They told me I could chill in the lobby or café and use the internet. So I sat in the lobby and with every hour I grew more impatient.. I had walked around, bbmed, surfed the net, gymmed, sat. turned into a couch potato in the main lobby and read a book.. still my room wasn’t ready. At 3 pm I tried to check in with the arab girl but still room wasn’t ready \. I couldn’t take it anymore! I needed sleep I felt and looked stoned! I felt nasty from the 14 hour flight and needed a shower and some sleep! So around 3:30 I started complaining to my dad and brother. Who ofcourse got frustrated and called the front desk “Sheraton is well known around the world and shouldn’t be treating people like this”. Finally gylc reps arrived there were 3 young blondes ( didn’t know if I could get anything outta this but I tried) I told them everything and my hands were clenched from how mad I was and my lower lip was quivering. One of the girls with the dark mustache noticed. HELL TO YOU WITH MY ARAB ANGER! And in the middle of all of this I noticed a very good looking blonde teenager guy staring at me in a weird way so it pissed me off even more!So took my anger out on them and the front desk guy ( new guy that just started his shift) and so they agreed to switch my room with another room. Since I cant switch room mates. Thank you Amanda! And sorry to the new guy at the front desk. Finally, got to room 325, It was very clean, neat and I didn’t expect it at all, quickly opened up my bag and unpacked neatly into drawers ( I had gotten around 11 pairs of shoes and over 15 outfits. Two minutes later the phone rang and I was creeped out. Turns out it was my father. Phew! I was staaaarhving by that time! So I took a shower finished unpacking and headed to the main lobby to thank the reps and the front desk guy and also to see if blondie was still there. Unfortunately neither was the blondie nor the reps. Went back up and bbmed my brother who seemed more interested in the hotel’s surroundings than I was.. he started giving me restaurant names he found online that are nearby and telling me whats inside the hotel. I could have gone to a mall earlier during the day but was too scared to leave plus I was a little girl in a huge city all alone! ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN so I just stayed in.. (regret it BIG time) so after I got back to my room decided to check out the menu it was pretty good but double the amount it cost outside so I ordered Chicken Quesadias and a Panini sandwich 15 minutes later a huge ass tray was delivered with two plates two glasses and two sets of cutlery. Yeah.. I was eating for two people! The food was amazing but never got to finish it..

Then around 7pm I watched a couple modern family episodes and tried to stay awake till after sunset wich didn’t work and resulted in sleeping with the tv loud in the background. At around 11pm I hear people outside knocking on my door, half dizzy and with one eye tearing by itself I get up to open the door.. only to be greeted by a man with a suit and an asian girl quarter his size.. she comes in, we exchange names, I ramble a few words that I don’t remember at all and get back in bed… she left the room 5 minutes later to call her parents and friends.