Authorized Personnel

Well today was the second day of work and it went great. I have made friends with the security guards at the entrance to my building, and kind of gotten my bearings on work. It takes me a total of about 5 whole minutes to get from my front door to the front door of the office. It is great!! My office decided that today I needed to get acquainted with the Capitol and all the buildings so they sent me walking all morning. It was so much fun being able to just roam wherever I wanted and see all the sites. I was so excited when there were a bunch of tourists around and I got to walk in to the authorized personnel only door. I went all over the Capitol, Senate and the House Buildings. We are all getting acclimated with living in the city and working so far, but it will drastically change once we are back in session. It is recess right now so all the Representatives and Senators are back in their home districts and states visiting constituents. So it is pretty slow around the Hill right now. It feels like we have been here forever and we have only been here a few days I can’t believe what it is going to feel like when we leave. Tonight we went to Chinatown and went out to eat just for something different. The fun part of the evening was getting yelled at by the metro driver through the loud speaker about all walking in through one door on the metro. It was a little creepy because it was definitely directed towards us. He said that it would be better if we walked through separate doors that we were all going to the same place. It was kind of funny though there was about 10 of us. We all really enjoyed Chinatown and we are for sure planning a trip back to it soon to go shopping again. Now we are all enjoying laying on the couch after a long day of being an intern on Capitol Hill. Till next time….

The Beginning

It has OFFICIALLY started!!!! I am so excited to be here in Washington DC and started with my internship finally. I got here on Friday and it has been a whirlwind ever since. So I will start at the beginning. FRIDAY- I woke up at 2 am and was going till like 12 am it was so much fun my flight went great and I got a taxi to the Tech House. Which was an adventure in itself because I had all my luggage with me. But I got there safe and sound with now glitches. Then me and a couple other interns went to the tex-mex restaurant called Tortilla Coast and it was surprisingly good for being a tex-mex in DC. Then more interns arrived and we all went walking around our new home "Capitol Hill". Our offices are really basically right across the street from our house and it takes my like 5 minutes to get to work. SATURDAY-We were all tired from Fridays traveling but we were all raring to go early and went to the Eastern Market which is a huge flea/farmers market was so much fun to get to go and get fresh fruit and vegetables and see a little of how DC works. Then we went walking more and then went to the Natural History Museum and then came home and watched National Treasure, because we thought it was exciting because we were in DC where it was filmed…sort of. Then Sunday we were all worn out and ended up sleeping till like 10 and then we went exploring even more in our backyard "capitol hill" and then went to lunch and just hung around the house for the rest of the day and researched and slept getting ready for work. MONDAY (FIRST DAY AT WORK) - Well the first day went great! I walked to work with a few interns and we got there really early so I ended up hiding in the bathroom for 30 minutes. The rest of the day was great and went by pretty quick and they let me off work early and went to run errands. I am so excited for this opportunity and so happy to share it with everyone so I will try to keep y’all updated as much as possible. Till next time.....