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….