Houston

26/02/08
Um... let's see. It's been a few days. I made it to Houston. I followed to big, funny Mexican guys Robert and Polo. It was 6 easy hours from the border
to Austin, Texas and I was accompanied by my boy ODB. I really love my car. I realized this again during this trip. We got in at like 9 at night on the
24th and Robert and Polo let me stay the night with them. I spent most the night online looking for a couchsurfer the next day as they had more family
arriving and wouldn't be able to accomodate me for another day. The next day I drove around with Polo who showed me some of his worksites. He does construction.
Then he drove me around downtown and found the general area of where my interview was. We went out for some really good tacos, then went our seperate ways
and I met up with a couchsurfer Paul who said he can host me. He lives downtown in a fancy loft. This guy is all money and lots of fun. He's 24 and does
something similar to stockbroking, but he trades energy only: oil, gas, water, and so on. I unloaded my stuff in his place and then we got into his fancy
BMW convertible and hit the town around 7 pm. Houston is a big, beautifully overrated city best admired on a 70 degree night by convertible. Paul kept talking
about money and trading and all this stuff and I kept laughing and smiling and telling him how much he reminds me of the guys from Boiler Room. We agreed having
money isn't all it's cracked out to be, but it fun to see all the stuff he's got. We went to Houston's China town where we had Korean sandwiches, then
crawfish which was an experience itself. I tried the brains and the claws along with the main body segment of meat. Then we had this amazing Korean shaved
ice dessert stuff. We cruised Houston some more listening to rap from the dirty south. Then we went back to his loft, and went out on the roof where he
has an amazing view of downtown. We went inside and Paul did some drugs then we went to bed. This brings us up to today. I woke up, studied all kinds of
Japanese history, culture, and geography stuff to prepare for the interview. I got there and they stuck me in a room with like 8 other interviewees and we
all hung out and talked until they called us one by one. I think I did alright. As good as I could have. I spoke clearly, made good eye contact, and looked
reallllllly good, if you know what I mean. Now that I have that over with I can relax; I don't even find out if I made it until May.
Tonight I went to the Rockets game. Probably bad time as it's the first game since Yoa Ming got injured. It was still fun watching Tracy McCrady dunk and
Dokumbe denying all the Wizards. It was a pretty bad game as the Rockets made the Wizards look like a WNBA team and won 94-69. Tomorrow I'm planning on
going to Austin, if I can find a couchsurfer.