Welcome to Briana Britton's blog. I am a recent graduate of Santa Clara University in California and I just moved to New York City. Here you will find the trials and tribulations, surprises and jubilations of my time in the Big Apple. Please feel free to follow and comment as you please.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

My Fifth Week :)


Wow; on Friday, I got to go to the Library of Congress, and I don't mean looking at all the pretty gold and frescos of the Main Hall - I mean IN the Library of Congress - walking around, touching books, being a scholar. This was an amazing experience, and I hope to go back before my time in Washington is over.

Other exciting news - I'm going to New York! I've never been to The City, and I plan on doing all the touristy things offered to me. You bet - I'm going to be that annoying Asian snapping photos or the ugly Americans buying silly New York snow globes - oh, it's on. I feel very lucking in that I have personal New York tour guides - Jenn, Katerina, and Peter, friends from Stanford. We're only going to have about one full day to explore The City, but who knows, the future may bring me back to New York; I'm still only newly 18.

Also... yesterday i got to have lunch with Congressman Sam Farr in the member's Dining room with the other interns - how cool is that? Wow - I could only imagine how many important, famous policymakers had sat in the very seat where I was having lunch. That will definitely be an experience I will not forget! Sam is really nice, and the whole lunch conversation was aimed at him wanting to know about us; of course he threw a few tidbits about himself, but I like how he is not self-centered even though he has a staff of 14 and an even larger entourage... That's really cool; all Representatives should be like that.   :)

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