DC (part 1.0)

While in Washington DC, I stayed in the George Washington University dorms. This is the only thing I took a picture of during my first stay (I later went to NYC and CT, then back again). I was trying to do more living than recording (though recording turned out to be difficult anyway).

Mostly, I was shown around their portion of the city by friends I stayed with at George Washington University. The city was described as a 'quiet city', which seems accurate. The streets are named by number or by letter in a well-ordered fashion, and are populated by joggers. You'd think I would have at least taken pictures of one of the many statues of George Washington around me, but nooooo. Actually, I had in mind to use a lot of stock photos for this post. I saw a lot of cool stuff, but nothing that no one's taken pictures of before, and lots that I wasn't sure if I could take pictures of, like the The interiors of the White House, Capitol, and State Department ! ah ha ha ha.



Photo by Ben Schumin


I came to DC from the airport, via metro, past the hospital Cheney frequents, and to the GWU dorm. I spent more time with the friends I was visiting in my first full day than I had ever spent with them in real life before. Accordingly, my first few days were mostly hanging out with college students while trying to do some of my own work, interspersed by the interesting events of wandering the Lincoln Memorial, learning about racing pigeons in Taiwan, going on a White House tour, a tour of the Capitol building, attending some GWU classes, and attending a Jefferson Fellow talk at the State Department, sponsored by STAS and OES.