beautiful disaster

Hello! I'm now in Vienna, Virginia, staying at my great aunt's house, which has Internet, albeit a very slow connection because her sons (my uncles who are both younger than i am) download every game imaginable on it.

Went down to Washington, D.C. on Thursday (it's just next to Vienna). Went sightseeing. The weather here is crazy. Thursday was hot and humid, just like Singapore, Friday was FREEZING because it was raining and today's been good--18 degrees (which they consider warm). So anyway, we went to this exhibition about the White House because we couldn't actually visit it (due to security reasons--you have to, like, get a permit from your embassy or something). I wanted to visit it, though. to see what the rooms are like and pretend i'm like this visiting princess...oh, all right.

The exhibition was very interesting, though. Saw pictures of the Blue Room, the Red Room, the Oval Office and others. Got to read about American presidents and their families, too. Imagine what it must be like, staying there! Sooo cool. You have your own chefs to prepare your meals and there are fountains and huge gardens...

Visited the Holocaust museum, too, which, in one word, is intense. It really brings to life the fact that people actually suffered under Hitler's Third Reich and that it's not just something that you read in your history textbook and forget. Because it actually happened. I guess you could say it's sort of morbid, too. There was this place filled completed with shoes of the Jews who had to take them off before entering the gas chamber to be gassed (on the pretext that they were going to have a shower). They also had documentaries and interviewed the 'non-Aryans' who had been sterilized by the Nazis and who didn't even realise it until they grew up! It was really very horrible and caused me to wonder why God allowed all these things to happen; allowed these people to die like that. And then it reminded me that God has a bigger plan for His purposes. That His ways are not our own...

Have been shopping the past few days. Haven't found the dress. Tomorrow I'll be going down to Richmond and staying there for a week. Hope to do some sightseeing and more shopping for that useless piece of cloth that i will probably only wear once in my lifetime. I tell you, I'll probably end up buying that peach one in Singapore.

But the shopping here is good. They're having sales now. Crazy sales, down to 60% off, but you have to bear in mind that the US dollar is roughly almost double Singapore currency, so $10 is actually about $18, and that pair of shoes at $19.99? It's actually S$27 or something. So easy to forget.

Went crazy on Friday and bought handbags and earrings but by today I was sick of walking and looking at clothes. Can you believe it? Jac's actually sort of sick of shopping! Never mind, I will recover in time.

Tune in next time for the second part of Jac's Escapades in Virginia!

jac was here with you 6/13/2004 10:53:00 am

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My Destiny
Psalm 46 (NASB)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

There is river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.
"Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.