The City's Gone Green!

Hello Everyone,

I know it's been a while since I've written. But its been a busy couple of weeks. I'll do my best to fill you in on whats been going on, and hopefully I wont forget anything. so we'll start with last weekend!

3/9 - 3/10

Saturday

First off, the best thing about this weekend was the weather. It was in the 70's and sunny. It was really a great weekend to be outside. My roommate and I traveled to the Crime Museum here in DC. It was one of the coolest museums Ive been to so far. Definitely a must see (if your into crime like me even better!)  This museum was really interactive. They had touch screen computers throughout with questions and games on them. There was also a shooting game where you got to pretend to be an FBI agent and shoot at a target! that was one of my favorite parts of the museum.

Bonnie and Clyde replica car

John Wayne Gacy's clown costumes

CSI replica room

After the crime museum we walked around town an ate at a hole in the wall wings place. It was so delicious! Sometimes its the sketchy restaurants you need to go in. Then we went shopping in downtown DC.

 

 

 

Sunday

On Sunday my roommate Christina and I went to the Botanical Gardens in DC. It was a sunny beautiful day again and so we decided why not go look at some cool plants in a greenhouse.

It was such a cool thing. I didn't think I would love it because it was just plants, but it was so relaxing and beautiful I could have spent my whole day there. In fact I plan to go back and spend some time reading in there. It was that relaxing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/11-3/15

The week

I didn't do much that was fun throughout the week, but I did want to let you guys know that I went on a graduate school visit to George Washington University. I absolutely loved it! I will definitely be applying there for graduate school in the future.
I also have been spending this week applying to study abroad in Ireland. I would be going for the Fall semester. So hopefully I get accepted. I wont find out until May though.

3/16-3/17

Saturday

Today Christina and I went to brunch at a little place called the Lincoln Waffle House. Its a tiny place right by the Fords Theatre. It was super packed!!! But it was worth the wait. Then Christina and I walked over to The Library of Congress and got our library cards! it was pretty awesome. Now I have an official Library of Congress Reader Card!

Sunday

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! Today Christina and I went to the DC Parade. It was so cold here, but it was fun either way. We did end up leaving once it started raining, but we were there for a good hour and a half of the parade. There were so many Irish Dancers and police cars... It was a ridiculous amount of police really.

Christina and I at the Parade

Well, I know this was a really long post so I'll leave it at that. But I'll update you guys next weekend hopefully. I'll be going to the circus!

Best Friends With the Pizza Delivery Guy

Happy Sequester everyone!

If you didn't know before, you will now. The sequester has hit, which means that 1.2 trillion dollars is being cut from government spending. I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but I encourage all of you to read up on it. Here's one article to get you started. I know here in Washington DC it is the hot topic of the month.

Anyway besides that not much has been going on here. I did go to the Holocaust Museum last Saturday with my roommate. I wasn't expecting this museum to be so large. It's almost not right to call it beautiful, but that's what it was. It was laid out so well and was very emotionally tiring. Unfortunately you are not allowed to take pictures there. Otherwise I would have taken some to share with you.

A few weeks ago I was asked to answer some questions for  my schools newspaper and today I got an email with the completed article. So I wanted to share that article with all of you.

Here is my school Article

Yesterday I attended an event called Building a Career In Washington DC. It was a networking event hosted by NYU. There were 5 really wonderful panelists, all of whom had really amazing jobs here. I spoke to a man who works for the Secret Service and gave him my information. I also networked with a woman who works for the Red Cross. It was a very successful event and I learned a lot. Hopefully I made some connections that will last.

I'm sorry this blog post is a bit more wordy than my other ones. I didn't do anything to take pictures of.
As for my odd title... Well let me just say that pasta is cheap... and so I eat a lot of it, A LOT, so tonight when i looked in the cabinet and had a choice between pasta and mac n cheese... I went with Hawaiian Pizza. The pizza delivery guy is now my hero.