Thank goodness not a lot to write about today as we have a 3:30am wake-up call!
We had a relaxing morning laying around the room and eating breakfast and left to go into the city around one o’clock. We got off the metro at the Capitol South station and made our way to the House offices [...]
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Day 9
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day 8
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today marked the beginning of our Inaugural events!
We got up extra early this morning to get into the city so that we could see the Concert. Upon entering D.C. we found a cute diner across from Ford’s Theater to have breakfast in. The atmosphere in there equaled our excitement for the day’s events. Besides us [...]
Day 6 & 7- And So It Begins
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well the past two days have been pretty eventful.
After returning from a long day at the Smithsonians I (thankfully) decided not to go out to dinner with everyone else. I was looking forward to a quiet night lounging and watching TV. Around 7:30 my roommate thought she heard water running so she hopped out of [...]
Thursday
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Thursday, a couple of us were fortunate enough to receive senate gallery tickets, allowing us to watch a session of Congress. It was a great experience being able to witness Biden and Clinton’s farewell speech. I really enjoyed listening to Biden as he spoke about his first experience on the senate floor. His first [...]
Day 5
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today and Tomorrow have the potential to be the best two days of our trip so far!
On Wednesday we made friends with a couple of cool kids from Montanta. They ended up giving us tickets to sit up in the gallery for a session of Congress. So yesterday six of us went to watch the [...]
Day 4
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow so today will be another short post as I am dead tired. We have been on the go without a break since Saturday and it has finally caught up with us. I am even typing this in bed.
Today was pretty good- there was the perfect mix of fun, controversy, and disappointment. C-SPAN broadcasted live [...]
Day 3
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I’m in a huge time crunch- I only have an hour with this computer or else Dan will kill me.
The sessions continue to be interesting but it is shocking to me how some of the other participants are so rude. For the last three days students have slept/talked and played with cell phones throughout [...]
Day 2
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I write this now as we are lounging and watching a movie.
Today was a good day. Our morning began with a lecture by Dr. Michael Genovese of Loyola Marymount. I was very impressed by his analysis of presidential power. He pointed out that even though a president is sworn every four years each one holds [...]
Day 1
Posted in Cara Pavlock on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was a long, tiring, travel day and we were more than happy to get to bed last night, (notice the PJ’s I have on in the photo). Unfortunately we forgot to turn on the heat be before we went to bed and none of us slept because of the frigid temps.
We began our early [...]
