Frogolicious!

Well this week I certainly am not at a loss for things to write about! The BF came to visit this weekend, so Saturday and Sunday were fairly eventful. After I met Chris at Union Station (he took the Amtrak), we wandered around for a while and then went to see Strange Wilderness. WORST MOVIE EVER. Don’t waste your money, please—I almost walked out. After the movie we went to this really good Italian restaurant right by the apartment. Mmmmm chicken piccata. On Sunday we went to the National Geographic Museum to see the frogs. I was under the impression that it was going to be a big museum, but it only had four or five exhibits. The frogs were really neat, though. My fave was the green “waxy” frog. He had a super serious face on, like he was thinking about something very consequential and important. This is not a picture of the actual frogs at the museum, Chris and I could not procure one, but I wanted to show you all cool they are. Shout out to Jill at home—I’m posting this for you.

After the museum we grabbed some lunch at a cute sandwich place and then went to this really awesome show called “No Child…” at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre near Chinatown. Nilaja Sun wrote and performed the show. It was touching, but also a funny and creative satire on Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. “No Child…” was a wonderful way to spend an hour and a half—but it stops playing on February 17, so go now! Following the show I brought Chris to where I work in China town, and then we got dinner at Fuddruckers. We went shopping too, a really great afternoon :)

The Presidential Lecture Series that TWC plans for us was canceled on Monday, so I had a wonderfully relaxing afternoon at the apartment. My class, Understanding Implementation: From Policy to Practice, is Monday evenings and despite its length of three hours, is incredibly inspiring and motivating. Washington, DC has really brought out my civic side. I feel like this city unlocks so many doors—there are millions of opportunities to get out there and make a difference.

The race for president has all my roommates and I very engaged. This is such a great city to be in at this time of the election process—and it will be even neater for kids in the fall! Vote for Hillary!

Well that’s about all I have right now—Sixteen Candles is on TV (I was made to grow up in the 80s, I’m part of the wrong generation…)

Lessons of the Week:

1) Safeway.com is not a good way to get your groceries to your door with limited effort. Jenny ordered groceries to be delivered yesterday and they canceled on her after the window for delivery was over, and today they didn’t even put her groceries on the truck when they left for the apartment. Bummer, Jenny has no food.

2) Get to know your program advisor (and your professor, and your agency supervisor, and your coworkers, and the speakers at your lecture series…)! My advisor Fred is not only the nicest guy ever, but he has been a huge help and resource to me. All the staff here at TWC has been really receptive to me; actually, most people in this city are that way. I’ve found that all you have to do is ask and people are more than willing to help you and network with you. But your program advisor especially is the one person here you can develop a strong working relationship with, so take advantage of that. Don’t waste the best resource TWC has to offer you.