Anyways. I took a 3-day trip to the East coast for a job interview earlier this week. It was tons of fun. It started off kind of frustrating, but it ended on a high note.
I first landed in DC and immediately got lost after about 15 minutes of driving (rented a Chrysler 300). I even unintentionally passed by the White House, which I later found out had the Pope visiting on that day too! After about 5 hours (should have been 2.5) and help from some people (you get interesting looks when you ask, "Excuse me, but where am I?"), I finally reached my destination.
There was a small misunderstanding at first, so I was unable to get on the military base at first. But afterwards, I showed the soldier-guard some government issued document, and they let me in. I'm not even joking. I just don't want to get into too much detail because...I dunno...big brother reads my blogs?
The base is an interesting place. During the tour, we got to see drive around, and you know how when you're driving and you have to stop and wait for a train to finish crossing? Well, we had to stop and wait for a jet to finish crossing. Unfortunately, no pictures were allowed on the base, but when I had the chance, I drove off-base for a few hours and took a bunch of pictures at the nearby museum and some other locales.
On the last day, I decided to get up early and check out early so I could drive into DC and find parking at a good time. One of my interviewing managers told me that I could find parking between 14th and 15th street, and that's exactly where I parked haha. I walked around DC all by myself among the many other tourists and snapped several pictures around town.
Near the end of my stroll, I was lucky enough to see a family of ducks crossing 15th street. It was quite adorable, but 3 of the ducklings couldn't jump the curb and was stuck in the road. Fortunately, a few other people and I were able to get the ducklings off the street and back to their mother. It was uber-cool.
What's not uber-cool though, is that even though time felt like it stood still when I was there, I came back to be reminded that life goes on and that I still have homework to turn in. Boo.
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That sounds like a lot of fun! What would your job there entail?
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