Questio-mation of the day:
I have lived here for a month?!
This week I got letters in the mail from my angel grandmother & my momma, from my Rachel on a mission and thriving, and from a Chase (a guy friend from home) who is also serving a mission right now. What more could I ask for?! Seriously. It has been so great. There is something special about good old snail mail. So much more personal even though it is not the most convenient. Getting mail feels like Christmas morning for me...twelve times better than newspaper ads everyday!
I have also had some great discoveries at work this week. I started to feel the definite love of what I am doing. We got to visit the trade show floor again and I find it so interesting. The work of associations is becoming more clear to me. I also go to go to a lunch this week with my supervisor and a very important sponsor to our events. I was really intimidated at first when I observed where we were eating and the people we were eating with. It ended up being an amazing opportunity that I am grateful it was allotted to me. I was able to pick the sponsor's brain on his knowledge of the hospitality industry. I learned so much from him and from simply participating in the experience. Also, I am starting a project, "The Interview Project," where I am going to interview professionals in my office and get their best advice on life, events, and careers. Trying to make it the most. :] Stay Tuned!!
I explored DuPont Circle with Daryn tonight and she found a really cool vintage store. There were some skirts in there that inspired me to sew replicas! Also, on the metro on my way home I witnessed something I have wanted to the whole time I have been here...breakdancing in the metro! I recorded it. FOR SURE. Thursday serve as the Barlow kids pseudo-Friday. We are a little stir crazy and ready to go out by Thursday and have class and briefings on Friday morns. Tonight we discussed the men with the greatest hair in the world over ice cream and a stroll through Georgetown. Mitt Romney and George Clooney were the clear winners of the competition. We talked about how men have an easier time looking classy as they get older. It was a rainy and cool night tonight and so the walk was more than a bueno thing. To top it all off, we practiced headstands in the commons. With that I called it a night.
TOMORROW IS MY FIRST MLB GAME.
I can feel the excitement in my bones already.
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Last weekend was one of my all time favorites. We went paddle-boating at the Tidal Basin which is right next to the Jefferson Monument. It totally felt like a mini lake day. We were out it the hot sun just paddling around. It was like a mini heaven for me that day. It was cheap, we got to wear sweet life jackets, and laughed our guts out. What a dream. Pictures of the dream to follow....
One of the most hilarious humans alive.
This is the man that leads the runs we go on every week. We always end up running through some dark, wet, hidden, scary, forest-y trail- and all of us still go every time! I should know by now that I am not just signing up for a run but for a full on adventure every night. Two nights ago we ended up at Roosevelt Island, which is just on the Potomac. You cross a small bridge to get to it. It was so dark in there but we made it to a really cool look out point. We ended by running through the Georgetown canal. The next night we ran through another random trail and ended up on Georgetown Campus...which is BEAUTIFUL. It is a fun and interesting way to see the city. There is a whole herd of us that goes now and I love it.
Below are pictures from our night out in Old Town, Alexandria on the pier. There were all kinds of street acts going on the night we were there- a magician, caricature artists, people playing all kinds of instruments, the works.
