Week Three: Love & Bacon!

Another week here and I am still loving every minute of it! My work load at NFFE has started to increased and I was temporarily promoted to office manager! Although I am still the intern there being office manager has additional duties like answering the phone. I am also going to a congressional hearing about gender pay this week to represent NFFE.

Out side of NFFE I have been trying to get out and see lots of the sites in DC. This week Gracie (one of my Amazing roommates!) and I went to the National Book Festival. We had so much fun and were able to see so many different authors.

(Isabel Allende)

Gracie went to get a book signed by Isabel Allende for one of our other roommates Evangelna.

While Grace was doing that I was waiting in line to get my book signed by Spike from Top Chef! I was the very first person in line and I was so excited! I love Top Chef and Spike has always been one of my favorite chef from that show. Also he was on the season when they came to Chicago! He was also just named onto Top Chef All Stars!!!

When He first arrived at the tent Gracie started to FREAK out!!!!! I wish that I had a camera to film what happened because it was just to funny!

After we all relaxed I got to talking to him and It was lots of fun! I also wished him Good Luck on the New season of Top Chef!

After that Gracie and I went to get our library Cards from the Library of Congress and then headed home!

Love & Bacon

Closing in on Week 3 in DC

I can not believe that I have been here in DC for 3 weeks already!!!! NFFE is so interesting. The majority of the office has been out of the office this week and NFFE has been slow because of the summer winding down and congress has not been in session. I have has plenty of things to do though! Lots and lots of filing so far but that is fine with me!

Outside of interning I have been trying to do fun thing in DC. One thing that I wanted to do before I left was to get a burger at Good Stuff Eatery. Good Stuff Eatery is a burger placed owned by Spike from Top Chef and for those of you who do not know I LOVE Top Chef!!!! So needless to say I was happy to go there.

I had the Colletti's Smokehouse burger. It was good but it was small. but I have to say I love the Toasted Marshmallow shake.

It was so creamy and so good!!!! I don't even want to think how many calories were in that meal! The burger was in a nice place by the capital building. We went to the burger place at night and it was very nice out so we walked around for a little bite than headed back to the apartment.

Time is starting to go a by fast!!!!

The Last couple of Days!

I have started with NFFE!!! NFFE seams like it is going to be a fun and a great learning experience. But more on that as I continue with them these next 3 months.

Outside of starting the internship this weekend was a beautiful and great weekend. On Sunday the National Symphony orchestra played a free concert on the lawn of the Capital. It was a great and beautiful night. The orchestra played lots of interesting and wide range of music.

They played selections from different movies like The Wizard Oz, West Side Story, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark just to name a few movies. My favorite was when they sang West Side Story. When they did that selection they had two people from the Army come up and sing as Tony and Maria and it was beautiful! Another cool that that they did was that they played the score from Ron Howard's Apollo 13. Before they played NASA'S General Charles Bolden came on stage and talked about NASA and the Apollo missions.All together it was a great night!

On Monday I did not have to goto my internship because it was labor day so I decided to take advantage of my day off and go sight seeing. I first went by office to see where it was and how long it was going to take me to get there. After that I just started to walk around. The first big thing that I saw was the Treasure Department. I did not go in because no one can get in there and honestly me around that much money is a bad ideal! lol! Just next to that building is The White House!!!!

My office is so close it is nice! DC, much like Chicago, is on a grid system. My office is on 15th Street and the White house is on 16th Street. It is also a great place for me to be able to meet up with my other intern friends to have lunch.

After the White House I walked over to the WWII Memorial. It is a very beautiful place. Like the Vietnam you have to walk down to get to it but that is where the similarity ends. As you see the WWII memorial is a big and noticeable memorial.

Behind the WWII memorial is the Lincoln Memorial and the reflecting pool. The reflecting pool was not reflecting. It was green and gross so needless to say I was not going to be recreating the scene from Forrest Gump any time soon!

Next to that memorial was the Korean War Memorial. Again a very nice a respectful place. It is truly amazing how close everything is to one another.

So it was an awesome first weekend in DC! The weather was beautiful and they people I hung out were great!

Week One: WE NOW HAVE INTERNET!!!!!!!

It has been one long and crazy week!!! I moved into my new apartment here in DC on Wednesday. The apartment is nice to say the least but there have been a lot of problems with it ie the screen door being broken, not having half our electric outlets working, and most importantly not having internet!!!! but all that has been fixed now so this place is feeling a little bit more like home, which is nice. It is also nice that my roommates and I all get along so well. The funny part about me and my roommates is that one of them goes to school at Dominican, one of the roommates is from Sweden, and the last girl was born in Oak Park/has family in Oak Park/ and it ends up that She-She knows the women that this roommate mom worked with in the Oak Park Housing!!! It was crazy and She-She knowing someone I mean come on that almost never happens, JK

The roommates and I have all been getting along real well and it is fun to hang out with them.

This week also brought Orientation for the WII program. The orientation was over two days but it was not two full day but two half days. At orientation we got to know more about the program, each other, and what to expect. We all had to dress up in our business cloths and take the metro to orientation. We all looked like we were Washingtonians.