igor
Member
Serious question:
Mrs. igor will be attending a job seminar in Washington D.C. this spring. It's her first trip to the U.S. and she has little experience of such cities on this side of the pond either. She is a strong, level-headed lady with considerable karate experience, well aware of her surroundings, but the whole theatre of operations is unknown to her, beginning with the essential cultural phenomena, customs and ways, such as the comfort distance between people, ways to greet people etc. The language is no problem but will give her away as a foreigner.
Where we live there's no street gang activity nor street people in the sense of what I encountered on my single visit over there, and that was Chicago. I survived but I feel I can't provide my wife with significant, coherent accounts of the experience to prepare her for the trip.
She will be staying at the hotel where the conference takes place but she will also take a few days afterwards to take in what the city has to offer. Could you please provide some pointers as to:
1. How to stay safe?
2. What to see & enjoy?
Your help would be most appreciated.
Mrs. igor will be attending a job seminar in Washington D.C. this spring. It's her first trip to the U.S. and she has little experience of such cities on this side of the pond either. She is a strong, level-headed lady with considerable karate experience, well aware of her surroundings, but the whole theatre of operations is unknown to her, beginning with the essential cultural phenomena, customs and ways, such as the comfort distance between people, ways to greet people etc. The language is no problem but will give her away as a foreigner.
Where we live there's no street gang activity nor street people in the sense of what I encountered on my single visit over there, and that was Chicago. I survived but I feel I can't provide my wife with significant, coherent accounts of the experience to prepare her for the trip.
She will be staying at the hotel where the conference takes place but she will also take a few days afterwards to take in what the city has to offer. Could you please provide some pointers as to:
1. How to stay safe?
2. What to see & enjoy?
Your help would be most appreciated.