First days in DC

First days in DC,
originally uploaded by printsmart102.

I'm writing this on today the second day in DC, but I've been very
busy. They seem to keep us constantly occupied. That day after landing
I took a very long shuttle ride from Dulles to downtown and to GWU
(George Washington University). I rode with students from Rochester
and learned that some of them were in the same program as me,
International Baccalaureate. Which means I can find help with my
summer work for AP calc that I don't understand. We dropped off our
luggage and were dismissed until later (so I went to the white house).
For the rest of the day, we attended meetings with the coordinators
and did teambuilding, during which I did my Barack Obama impression.

On the second day, we had a lighter schedule. We reviewed Chinese
history since 35,000 BCE in the morning as well as ancient Chinese
culture at the Freer Museum. Then we had 3 hours to spend in Chinatown
for lunch -- we had burritos. Later that day we met Chinese elders and
talked to them about their lives in DC -- they only spoke Mandarin. I
saw the Asian liason police substation in Chinatown-- they don't have
liason offices in Atlanta, to my knowledge, and there's no chinatown,
either. At dinner I also met interns from the DC Mayor's office OAPIA
(Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs). They served as interpreters and
worked at that office to pursue careers in international affairs. We
had a traditional Chinese dinner on the third floor of a restaurant--
in a private room with a stage. Very nice. More pics soon.