Supreme Court
So orientation ended today with lunch at the Senate cafeteria and a group scavenger hunt. Lunch was great, they had a sushi chef but I opted for a yummy philly cheesesteak. The scavenger hunt included going to offices that each person in my group was going to be reporting to on Tuesday and then we had a neighborhood to find things in. Our neighborhood was Georgetown. Georgetown is a very cool town, but muy expensive. We went to the oldest house in Washington, aptly named “The Old Stone House.” You may be able to deduce the particular medium used to construct this house. My poor group mates got the privilege of going to NDU with me. To get to NDU, you must get off of the metro and walk 1/2 mile to the front gate, the another 1/2 mile to building on base. So my office added an extra 2 miles round trip to our hunt. One of the members of the group, whose is self identified as very lazy, persistently complained about how much walking we were doing and how hot it was and wanted to skimp on the assignment we were tasked with. She prevented Guillermo from making appearances today because I was so distracted by the wet blanket in the group. Oh well.
I definitely feel much more confident in navigating Washington by foot and by Metro. I am very excited about starting work on Tuesday. I found out that the plan for my orientation with NDU has changed because of a very special opportunity that has presented itself on the first day. I am not sure how much of it I can talk about yet so I will leave it at that until I get read-in on what I can and can’t talk about in this format. Sunday I will be attending services at Capital Hill Baptist Church. I have invited a hand full of my class mates to join me and I think that I have at least one taker, possibly more. Tomorrow I am going to watch the UGA game at Penn Quarter Pub with UGA Alumni Chapter here in DC called the DC Dawgs. I also aspire to get some laundry done and I need to read a couple chapters of my textbook.
NDU
Hopefully I will find something to do on Monday with one of my in-town relatives or friends from the AF, I could use a day away from a few of the people in the program, maybe be around someone above the age of 22.
I completely miss my wife, my dogs, my friends, my bed, and my Wal-Mart. I took two trains and spent 1 1/2 hours to get paper towels, face wash, and laundry detergent. I appreciate your prayers and can’t wait to see what God has in store for me here.
