Washington D.C.

I just went to Washington D.C. for the NSEP "Orientation and Convocation". It was okay. I was surprised to learn that there are indeed smart college students out there who understand that Georgia is a country as well as a state. I gotta say, meeting other scholarship recipients was by far the best part of the trip. Although there were no other students going to Georgia, I did meet some cool people, and I met one girl that was going to Kyrgyzstan on the Eurasian Regional Language program (the same program I'm going on).

As far as my study abroad goes, I actually learned very little. The orientation was basically a summarization of everything I had already learned in other orientations and classes, but they did put me in a nice hotel and I got to check out some of the nightlife in D.C. although it was very limited considering I'm only 20. Anyways, there's only two or so months until Georgia.

Ohh yeah, I also got to see two policeman pull their guns on some homeless person when I was touring downtown. I was only like 20 feet away. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera, so no pics...sorry.