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I saw the most known person by everyone in the world

This year is strange...weird... I saw some famous people. One of them is Ichiro who is a baseball player of Seatle Mariners. I got excited when I saw him, and you can know it from my previous post. But, this time is very different! Of course, Ichiro is very famous, but it has an aspect that his popularity is only accepted among the team, Mariners, fan and the Japanese. Today, I saw the most popular person in the world. His name is George W. Bush. Yes! The president of the United States! Can you belive it!? He came to my university for the address.

I knew that he was coming to the university on Monday. The professor of my walking calss said, "Do you know the people wearing black clothes who are around the campus? They are Secret Service. The president of the U.S. is coming here on Friday." When I heard that, I though, "What are you talking about?" and I believed I misunderstood. But on that night, I heard it was true from my friends. On Wednesday, one of my friend got tickets! Thank you very much!! I heard it was difficult to get tickets, and there are about 1,500 seats, but they give about 6,000 ticktes! My friend informed me that the door will be open at 9 a.m. and be sure to be there until 11:30, and it'll take much time for security check and the seats will gone soon, so come there on 9:00. The address is from 12:00. I have 2 classes from 9 and 10. I got confused. Should I attend classes? But if I did, can I enter the gym that will be the hall for it. At first, I decided to skip a class from 10, but other students who are gonna see Bush say they'll skip all classes in the morning. The class from 9 is theatre class... I didn't wanna skip it! And I compared them, theatre class and Bush. Finally, I got to skip the class... I'm sorry doctors and my parents...

Today, I went to the gym with my friend at 9 a.m.. There were many people who got ticket and those who are the Republican and came there just for curiousty like me. Surely the security chack took time, but it was not seriouser than I expected. I had a plenty of time until he appeared. Oh... I could came there after the class... damn it! Until he appeared, the man lead people to say something like, "Welcome to Missouri, George W. Bush!" People around me were shouting it, but I didn't. When the time was coming, the man came to the stage and announced that the president showed up. At that moment, people, they are all on his side, stood up and started to wave flags and signs. You know, they are taller than me, so at that time I was tired and wanted to sit down, but I had to stand up to se him. And finally he appeared! At first, I didn't notice which was him, because he didn't dress up and he was far from my place and all men look same. But after a few seconds, I realized and got excited with my friends! "Bush! Bush! Bush!" This is the only word we said at first. Then, do you know what we said next? We said... "Hey, he is smaller than the image, and he seems to be fat around the middle..." hahaha! Of course we talked with in Japanese, no one knows, but if someone knows, what did it happen? Anyway, for a few minutes, people's cheer, clapping and shouting, "Welcome to Missouri, George W. Bush!", didn't stop. His speech was last about 40 minutes or so, I guess. I'm not sure, because I was tired and sleepy. I understood what he said about 70 or 80%, and the reason why I couldn't understand the rest of 20 or 30% is because of my English problems and his south accents. He pronounces 'Missouri' as 'Missoura'. (Hey! Here is Misouri!) At first, he talked about the U.S. economy, and then, I don't know how did he bring this topic but he started to talk about Iraq, terrorism, and the war. I found that I don't like him. Before I listened to the speech, I didn't like him, but I knew I DO NOT LIKE HIM. He said like "We have the finest enemy in the world.", "Our goal is to defeat our enemy". (no~~~~~!) At last, he was talking about the North Korea, and he showed the word, Japan or Japanese sometimes. He doesn't know that there are Japanese there. My friends from Sweden who were sitting near to me looked at me when he said "Japan", and they said," hey, you should wave your hand and shout 'I'm Japanese!'". Of course, I didn't.

I was really tired when the speech was over. We, Japanese girls, had lunch and I attended the class with one of them.

I saw the most famous person, but I wasn't moved so much, and I think that's because I don't like him. Anyway, it was a long day.

Oh! Around 3 p.m., I heard loud noise in my room, and I looked the outside from the window, then it was the Air Force One.

posted by Azusa @ 15:44