You's a Hobo (In DC this summer)

Things have been pretty eventful as of late which makes it a little difficult to blog more. I was super busy while in London and Florence as well and still managed to blog, but it is just much easier to call someone while in America haha.

We've been seeing some really great things though. We've also become quite the little chefs, trying to go out to eat only a couple times a week. I had leftover homemade pizza tonight that was delicious.

Saturday was kind of a lazy morning. I've started to realize that the fact that everything closes at 5 or 5:30 makes it difficult to actually get anything done in this city, especially weekdays. Nevertheless, we went to the National Museum of the American Indian Saturday, thinking we would only have time to do part of it and somehow managed to do the entire museum in like 1.5hrs. Overall, it was not one of our favorite museums, though we did love the architecture of the building. As for the information, it seemed poorly organized and just sorta tossed around (a hidden statement about native culture?) But we had a good time calling out CORN wherever we saw a cob used as decoration, and believe me, it was used as decoration a lot.

that's the building. After that, we took a lonnng metro ride out to UMD to see Idaliz and Zack. We all got dinner at a pretty crappy restaurant and went and saw the new x-men movie. I liked it a lot and the four of us had a really good time. Probably our last hoo-rah, since Zack is moving to Florida soon to be an adult with a real person job at a nuclear power plant. Super bitter sweet, thinking about him not being there in the fall, but I know he'll come visit.

Sunday I had work which was awful as usual, though 4 hour shifts are easier to bear than 6 hour shifts. The fourth roommate moved in, who again is very nice. I'm still somewhat surprised that I ended up with three roommates I really like, and am very secretly hoping that we become friends over the course of the summer.

1. Liz goes to one of the SUNYs but is actually finishing her degree in Brussels. She's interested in international relations and is interning at the state department this summer.

2. Willa was adopted from Nepal and is working at some company that has a long acronym (USCIS). She goes to Wooster.

3. Sierra goes to UT austin and is doing a short internship at the dept of the interior

Our apartment has a mouse. Liz saw it the other night crawl under the oven. Today, a pest control man came and set up a bunch of traps and said to call him if one of them catches it. Gross. Florida doesnt have mice problems. I'm not used the idea of living with a rodent. Fortunately we're all so exhausted though, we don't have time to think about it.

Sunday night, Kyle and I took a walk around DC to see ALL of the memorials. And I mean all. Order:

Vietnam

Lincoln

Korean

FDR

George Mason

Jefferson

WWII

Top that! It was tons of fun, since they're lit up at night and we got to work off our dinner and ice cream while at it. I remembered all the memorials pretty well, except everything was smaller than I remembered it (Kyle claims it's not only that I'm bigger now, but that I'm used to how tall he is, haha). The soldiers at the korean memorial were especially smaller than I remember. And for some reason, I thought there was like a whole field of them, and there were really only like 10-15 in a small triangle.

The other cool ones were George Mason, because no one goes to see his memorial, and the WWII one because it wasn't here the last time I was in the city!! and it was a really neat memorial. Controversial (though they all seem to be), because they say the neo-classical design makes it look "as if Hitler won." but really it is just gorgeous. There's a wreath for every state and US territory and the memorial is split between the Atlantic side and the Pacific Side. There was a whole bunch of yellow stars in a fountain representing 100 dead each. It was beautiful.

My fave is probably the FDR memorial, just because it seems so interactive. And I like how you trace through all of his terms, and the fountains are all really cool.

picturessss:

Someone taller than Kyle!

Korean

Fala, us, and Franklin

Ellie and myself, acting stately.

George Mason!

As for the job front... I don't even wanna think or talk about it tonight. I start at the NPG on Wednesday. I canNOT wait.

Love,

Becca