It's Flying By!

Week 2 was even better than Week 1! I have become more familiar with my work at my internship, and D.C. still offers a lot to explore and learn. Now that I'm a week farther into my work at the office, I've made a few significant steps on my online exhibition project and our educational outreach team has started collaborating about Peru things. It has been cool to work closely with my supervisor, who does both curating and educational outreach, because she participates in a wide scope of the work done by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

I could talk about how cool my supervisor is for a long time, but I'll save that for later, after I will have been around her for another week. She is very knowledgeable and funny and caring to say the least. On Tuesday we had a unit-wide staff meeting. It was nice to see how a progressive and fruitful unit like CFCH runs a bi-weekly staff meeting. They get an update from each department, become informed about outside issues, and even make the interns introduce themselves (my 5 seconds of fame)!

I love hearing other majors talk about what they study, because it is like learning what they learn without paying tuition! On Saturday, Stacey (who knows a lot about Art History) walked me through an entire building of the National Art Gallery, and it made it so very interesting! The night before, Madison (Communications major) got to sit in a limousine during our monument walk, and afterwards she explained the theories of communication that she used to talk her way into the limo without making it seem like persuasion.

Everyday life here is super fun. When I'm not at my internship, I am usually hanging at the house with the other interns or doing a museum. I really enjoy the family-style dinners our wonderful hosts provide a few times a week. Spending time with Katie on our commutes to and from CFCH and sitting next to her in the office has been really great. She says funny things and is so nice. We are both INFJs, which basically means we spend a lot of time thinking and often walk in the wrong direction.

Today was especially awesome because besides the Hawks' OT win, my aunt's sister who lives here gave us a tour of Georgetown (a classy and cute neighborhood of DC) and drove us out to a couple farther away monuments (Iwo Jima, MLK, and Jefferson). We also got to go down Embassy Row, all the while hearing bits about D.C. from someone who has lived there since 1990. Loving this Jan term!

 

Madison, myself, and Katie at Georgetown Cupcake :)