My goodness I apologize for the long gap in communication!! This week has been crazy!! Besides the normal everyday craziness of interning and evening classes, which is a full week in itself, this week we also had:
- a Freedom award ceremony for Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (somewhat convroverstial..) in the Hilton Hotel fancy meeting hall! 3 square meal baby!! Good eatin'!
- a visit to Langley, VA where we were briefed on the CIA. I'd love to tell you what we were told but well I can't.. top secret, sorry..
- enjoyed a lecture from former Ambassador to Estonia, Aldonna Wos entitled 'Freedom is Not for Free'.
- somehow had time somewhere to play bball at the Georgetown Gym. Had to get my exercise in for the month. I played with one of the girls in my program. She skunked us in 21 and then again in 2-on-2. Dang girls who can play ball.. I kinda have a thing for those.. ;)
- a visit to the State Department. Not soo top secret but still don't wanna get in trouble by saying something..
- a visit to the Czech Republic Embassy. haha which has a funny history of its current location (rumor has it that during the cold war one of the staffers defected and threw all the top secret files in the street when they were situated just off Mass. like all the other embassies. The communists couldn't do anything to stop the staffer cuz once he made it to the street he was on US territory! SO they packed up and went way the heck north of DC, away from everyone else. They also made sure to have plenty of room between the building and the barbed wire fence (that points inwards to keep people in btw) so that if anyone tried to defect again they could shoot them before they made it to 'US territory'.)
- 'photo scavenger hunt' on the mall at night. ice cream in chinatown.
- attended 'The Fiddler on the Roof' at Wolf Trap with my internship group (my supervisor was kind enough to take us). And then we enjoyed a bbq at her place following where we got to meet with former interns. Once again met a very good contact.. she had lots of answers about American University. Looking at that for Grad school potentially.
- attended mass at the National Cathedral after church on Sunday.
But I mean really.. who wants to be able to look out the window and see the Washington Monument every morning, or see the Vice President's caravan speed by Dupont Circle at least once a week, or have to call and email Congressional Offices to explain a bi-partisan resolution for work, who wants to wear a suit in DC??? anyways..
In short I'm really really really looking forward to just being able to unclog sinks full-time again.
Umm yah, that's sarcasm.
Just two short weeks left :(
What would you do if you had 2 weekends left in DC??
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