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That’s right… the other was just a little taste, until she had time to get it all down. Please enjoy. It’s a doozy! 😀 OMG, how I cracked up at the Rain phone wallpaper part. Hahahaha!^^ Love it.

You can find Scorpiola’s mini-account and her HD fan cam HERE. And again, huge thanks to Rain’s hyungs for being so kind to our three Cloud sisters. We really appreciate it. ^@@^

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[Full Acct] 130508 Arirang World Peace Festival with Rain in Washington DC
By: Scorpiola

Here you go, my detail fan account of that day, enjoy~

May 8th, 2013
I left home at 6:20 in the morning and met cuckoo at a train station around my house. We first took a train to the city, then we took a bus to Washington DC from New York. Since our Rain God visited USA, New York and Washington DC both were raining like cats and dogs this morning. Same as the previous time, our Rain God always brought rain and storms with him when he visited the states. After six hours of travelling, our bus arrived at Union Station in Washington DC at around 12:15pm at noon. Rain God was probably having a lunch break, the sky stopped raining and became cloudy by the time we arrived.

Cuckoo and I first walked to Warner Theatre to take a look at the venue for Arirang World Peace Festival.

There were already some USA Cloud fans standing in front of the theater.
Pic Credit: Patsiii(Mustbenuts) @ CLOUDUSA

Posters of Arirang World Peace Festival could be found both inside and outside of the theater.

There were 6 hours left until the showtime, Cuckoo and I decided to walk to The White House since we both hadn’t been there for around ten years already. When we were almost there, just across the street of The White House, the sky suddenly started raining, so we decided not to go to The White House. We made a left turn at the block and decided to walk back to Union Station where we could hang around for few hours until the rain stopped. Who knew that the rain stopped just right after we made a left turn and passed about half of the block. Was that a hint for us meaning “You can’t go to The White House!” from Rain God?

We left Union Station at around 4pm. The sun was up high in the sky at this time. We walked toward the same direction where Warner Theatre was located and tried to look for a place for dinner on our way. At the end, we chose to have dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. When we were having dinner in the restaurant, Rain God started working and raining like cats and dogs again. How lucky we were, I couldn’t imagine how wet we could get if we were walking on the street at this time.

We left Hard Rock Cafe at around 5:45pm. Rain God was treating us so good this day. Rain God knew that we had to walk to the theater so he stopped the rain for us again. When we arrived at Warner Theatre, there were already a lot of Korean veterans and their families or friends gathering in front of it. Besides of that, there were American from different ages waiting outside of the theater for the show too. The age range of this group of people was wide, there were people young like teenagers and elder looked like in their 80’s. Then Cuckoo and I met with another Cloud fan “H” at around 6pm outside of the theater. “H” was a Cloud fan living in Washington D.C. and we knew each other for few years already. While we were waiting outside of the theater, I saw someone was holding a ‘R2B’ (Rain’s movie) promotional sign in hand, so I went to her and asked if she was a Rain fan. She said yes and everyone called her “Gee”. Then we found we knew each other on Twitter already from our talk. Gee was a really funny and passionate person. Besides of having a ‘R2b’ sign holding in her hand, she also had a “비” (“Rain” in hangul) tattoo on the back of her neck.

[*Stephe’s note: For those who are curious, yes, it is a real tattoo. It ain’t washing off! 🙂 ^@@^]

Each of us got a ticket with a pretty good seat because of Gee. Our seats came out falling on “Row J”, the 10th row from the stage.

People started entering the venue at around 6:15pm, but we waited outside until 6:50pm…

There were also posters of the show hanging on the walls inside of the building. Rain’s picture was not on it but his name was the first name in the list of performers.

They also gave out program brochures of the show by the time we entered the venue. It had Rain in it.

Our seats were on the right side of the stage. The front center section of seating was reserved for veterans and their families.

The show started at around 7:10pm. I thought Rain would’ve been the host as per the previous news but actually Sang-chu and an American lady came out as the host for the night. Sang-chu was really doing a great job as a host, he was really funny and trying so hard to make the show more interesting.

The show began with having different important people giving speeches on the stage, Korean and American National Anthem came next, then differert kinds of performances including fashion show of Hanbok (Traditional Korean Costume) came after.

There was a 15 minutes break before they started the performance. The video clip they showed on the stage screen was made of the movements of the two versions of posters for this festival. One of them had Rain’s picture on it.

Rain was the last one to perform. Audiences crowded in front of the stage to sing and to shake hands with him. Although veterans sitting in the front center section didn’t get out from their seats but they also waved their hands as per Rain’s request during his performance. I would say Rain elated everyone in the whole venue from all age and all nationalities. He sang two songs, ‘Hip Song and ‘Instead pf Saying Goodbye’

I’ve already put some of my fancam captures and video of Rain’s performance out previous, so I’m not going to put them here again. You may check them out in the links below. Besides of that, I would just add few of captures here.

Captures of Rain’s performance
http://www.rain-cloud.co.kr/board/view.asp?mstSeq=25&bcmSeq=5&seq=55299&page=1&searchType=title&searchStr=

Fancam Video
http://www.rain-cloud.co.kr/board/view.asp?mstSeq=26&bcmSeq=5&seq=55312&page=1&searchType=title&searchStr=

At the end of Rain’s performance, a lot of audiences called out loud for an encore. Unfortunately, there was no more encore at all. By the time Rain’s performance ended, the whole show ended. H got to leave as soon as the show ended, so cuckoo and I just both of us walked to the backstage loading area to see if we have any chance to see his car leaving the building. When we arrived at the backstage loading area, we saw Gee was already standing on a side by a black van. While we were walking toward her, we saw Rain coming out from the back door of the building and walking toward us. I believed he saw us far from there already so when he walked to his van, he passed by it and came to us instead of getting on the van. I said “Hey~” to him and he immediately responded me with “Hello~” The most beautiful and sexy ‘Hello~’ in the world I had ever heard. His English was really good in the conversations between him and us. When he spoke English with us, he was confident, quick in responds, and his voice was loud. I bet everyone in the loading area were able to hear what he said clearly. His English was a lot better than when he spoke English on TV or on stage previously. Really, in our conversations, his English was perfect, like a native English speaker. Then, as I mentioned in the fan account I wrote at the same night, we hugged, shook hands and took pictures with him. I’ve already talked about this part in my previous fan account and Gee also talked about some details in hers, so I’m not going to repeat what we have written in this fan account. For this part, you may refer to the below links.

My fan account for that part
[Acct]130508 Arirang World Peace Festival with Rain
http://www.rain-cloud.co.kr/board/view.asp?mstSeq=25&bcmSeq=5&seq=55299&page=1&searchType=title&searchStr=

Gee’s fan account
[Fan Account] Gee’s Encounter with Rain at the 2013 Arirang World Peace Festival in D.C. (5/9)
https://cloudusa.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/fan-account-gees-encounter-with-rain-at-the-2013-arirang-world-peace-festival-in-d-c-59/

This is the only clear shot of Rain I took at the loading area. When he came to us, I lost my sense of taking pictures of him and just hung my camera on my shoulder, so this is the only shot I have.

Besides of what Gee and I have already written about that part, I would like to add some more little stories here. We were all very excited when Rain said he could take pictures with us. The first one was a group picture(the one as Gee and I put in our fan accounts). Gee gave Hong-shi(one of Rain’s dancers) her phone to take that picture for us. I was so excited and trying to get the spot right next to Rain in order to take picture with him. At this time, I dropped my phone on the ground and the phone case was broken apart from my phone. The guy in suit, I guess he was someone from the Defense Department managing Rain and Sang-chu in this Washington trip, he pointed to my phone on the ground for telling my phone was dropped. By the same time, the screen of my phone awoke due to the drop and the guy smiled when he saw the wallpaper of my phone’s screen. Lol~ I think no one wouldn’t laugh when they see that Rain picture I use for my phone’s screen wallpaper~

After taking the group picture, I wanted to take one with my own camera, so I asked Rain “One more please~” “One more please~” He responded readily: “Ok! Hurry up! Hurry up!” Lol~ you can imagine how beautiful that “Hurry up! Hurry up!” sounded, right?! So, I still didn’t care, oh, I should say I had already forgotten about my phone and phone case were still lying apart on the ground. I went to Hong-shi and handed him my camera. When I turned around to walk back to Rain, Gyeong-yeol(dancer with long hair) handed me my phone. He not only picked it and the phone case up from the ground for me, but also built it back(put my phone back in the phone case) for me. Besides of Rain, the dancers oppa were so kind this time too. I’ve met them few times in person previously, this time they treated us the kindest ever. We didn’t have many chances to talk to them previously anyway, you know, because always Rain came first, the first person we served. I said “Thank you!” to Gyeong-yeol, then went back to Rain as quick as I could. Rain said he really had to go after taking an individual picture with me. When he was going to get on the van, I said “Rain, shake hand please~” He turned around to me as soon as he heard that and shook hand with me one more time. What a sweet oppa he was, right?! Rain was really an angel as I could see an angel halo above his head.

When I was watching Rain to get on the van, at the same moment, I found Sang-chu was already on the van. When did he come? Before we come? When we were with Rain? Or after? I really had no idea and none of us knew he was there. When I noticed him and trying to say hi, it was too late, they were closing the door of the van. I wanted to tell him he really did a great job as a host. Then when I saw a picture taken by Gee few days later, I saw Sang-chu was already on the van when Hong-shi was using camera and taking picture for me and Rain (The one behind black leather chair on the right in Gee’s picture below). It proved that when Rain was in front of us, really, no one else could come into our eyes. Sang-chu, sorry about that, we know about you, just didn’t get a chance to say hi.

Pic Credit: Gee (@questsurfer on Twitter) // CLOUDUSA

We walked outside of the building while watching Rain’s van left. At this time, other USA Cloud fans arrived, what a wrong timing it was~ They still could see Rain if they arrived a minutes or two earlier. We introduced each other, talked a bit about what just happened then cuckoo and I had to go. Since I had to go to work next morning, so we had to catch the bus leaving at 11:45pm in order to go back to New York. Then I arrived home at around 4:30 in the early morning. Like this, I finished my 24 hours round trip to Washington DC for seeing Rain. Things all happened too suddenly and too good to be true. I still feel so unreal like dreaming until today when I’m writing my fan account. I know it really happened when I look at the pictures but my mind is still so confused and keeps asking myself “did all of these really happen??”

P.S. When I check with my camera for that night’s pictures, I believe that was a mistake but I still feel Hong-shi was so funny. He was so kind that giving me another shot of Rain after taking picture for me and Rain with my camera, but that extra shot of Rain is so Picasso Postmodern style. I’m so glad that he didn’t use this method to take the previous two pictures of Rain and us. Anyway, thank you Rain, thank you Hong-shi, thank you Gyeong-yeol, thank you Sang-chu, thank you Gee and everyone I met that day. It was an unforgettable experience in my life~

~ by Cloud USA on May 16, 2013.

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