President Obama's visit to UNC

The last week of school was supposed to be quiet as lessons wound down and students prepared for examinations. Just as we thought that was all there was to UNC, the White House made a rather surprising announcement that President Obama was coming to visit UNC.

It was a classic case of 风水轮流转. After hearing how students queued up for hours in the rain to get tickets to watch him speak on Sunday, a few of us got up early on Monday morning to queue up, and we got them after an hour of waiting. Thinking the tickets were rare gems, we excitedly took photos of our tickets and splashed them all over Facebook.

Well I thought it was rare too.

And then some of my friends went to queue up for tickets later in the day, and they got them after queuing for just five mins.

The following day, on Tuesday, thinking that tickets meant guaranteed entrance into the arena, we went to the venue an hour before the President was scheduled to speak, and we were denied entry. So in the end, whether we queued two hours in the rain, or we queued five minutes under the sun, we could only watch him on TV. I found all these twists and turns amusing haha.

President Obama in one of the two limousines.

And this marked the end to my student exchange to UNC!

President Obama's visit to UNC