Well I'm moving up in the world, or maybe just a little bit further east down K St. to a new internship with B'nai B'rith International. Today was my second day! And I got to see what it means to lobby Capitol Hill hands on, pretty sweet. It's a bit different than my old job and it's only the second day so maybe the dynamics will change but I'm definitely missing certain things about the ILI.
Both locations have positives and negatives, Georgetown, while by far one of the most adorable places in DC filled with high end shops, great restaurants and cupcake stores (which I indeed got to know very well) it is so far! 45 minutes to get to work each day! Today was great, it took me 25 minutes door to door. My only worry is I'll lose those great legs the trek from Foggy Bottom to Georgetown allowed me these last four months, thankfully I'm moving in with my friend Ashley in a few weeks to a place where I was promised that my ass will be sculpted by a giant hill. And I've climbed this hill a handful of times so I believe it!
The only other thing that I miss is my feeling of community. I was legitimately friends with my co-workers at the ILI, there were a ton of office chit chat sessions. And now, I am isolated from my boss in a cubicle surrounded by empty cubicles, and the only intern. They call me or e-mail me to give me tasks...and while I felt trapped at the ILI with no windows in a basement, I realize I had easy access out of the building being on the ground level...now its a huge trek to even make it to fresh air!!! O the horror, I am definitely looking forward to campus sunshine in the Fall.
Apart from that, my friend Rebecca came to visit before her summer job in Korea (yup DoD here she comes!) we explored some spring festivals, got a little lost, and very sunburnt (whoops that was just me). Out of all my friends I was the one to turn up like a very ripe tomato at the end of the day...that's what I get for my fair skin...well now I got A LOT of color and a beautiful tanline of my purse strap to remember the wonderful day by. So while my Saturday night consisted of delicious black bean quinoa burgers, a bottle of wine, and a slap on the back from a drunken friend (why do people love hurting sunburnt people???) the spray on Aloe purchased the next day made life slightly better.
So while nothing too exciting or crazy is happening in my life, my friends are graduating and moving to foreign countries, traveling, and doing cool things without me, while my life is pretty stagnant...no worries I have big plans for next year including a trip to Malaysia, Oxford (if I can swing it), and a FLAS to study Arabic in Alexandria (Egypt not VA). These are my plans, everyone knows plans rarely come to fruition (or at least mine do) but I really hope I stick by them before I "settle down" and start a job and get boring :P that is unless I have a sweet job that lets me travel (which is the ultimate goal!!!)
Until then I have the summer and all of next year to enjoy the life of a student!!
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