Howdy!
I can't believe another month has flown by. Spring is in full swing here now and the
scenery has become breathtaking. The
cherry blossoms were incredible while they lasted. This past month I continued my regular job
duties, survived probably the roughest phone call I'll ever encounter, and got
to go to a fundraiser for Congressman Carter!
A work-related highlight of the month was the Republican
National Conference Committee’s March dinner.
Congressman Carter is the Conference Secretary and he had a few extra
tickets so the office was kind enough to let me go. It was held in the National Building Museum
and was absolutely gorgeous! I sat at a
table with our staff assistant, Victoria, and several other people. We got to hear Louisiana Governor Bobby
Jindal speak.
I went to New York again to visit my sister, brother-in-law,
nephew and niece, and got to see an absolutely amazing musical called Wicked on Broadway, and a play called The Unseen that my brother-in-law was
working for.
Spring Break for Texas was a busy week for our office! We had several tours scheduled every day, so
I have now given 14 tours to a total of 67 people. One of the tours I gave was to a family
originally from Sri Lanka. They gave me
a Sri Lanka flag pin at the end of the tour.
A very new experience I had was campaigning for a candidate
in the New York special election for the vacant seat in the House of
Representatives. I don't know how
many phone calls I made, but most people didn't answer so I just left messages
for them. The neat thing is that the
election ended up being so close that at one point the difference of votes
could have easily been the number of calls I made. They still don't know who won!
My parents got to come up to DC for a trip with the
Texas Farm Bureau at the end of March. I
took one day off of work to take them around sightseeing and the other days
they had meetings to attend. It was
great to get to show them around and then go to the events Farm Bureau had
planned for them! I got to sit in on
their group meeting with Congressman Carter, took photographs with my
Congressman, Lloyd Doggett, went on a night tour of the capitol with
Congressman Louie Gohmert, and on a night tour of the monuments.
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| Week Nine: Dinner with Dr. Elliot head of
the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications department at
A&M |
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| Week 10: At the circus in Verizon
Center with some of the other interns |
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| Week 10: The Washington Monument |
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| Week 10: Part of the Korean War Memorial |
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| Week 11: RNCC dinner at the National Building
Museum |
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| Week 11: Some of the A&M interns before our
tour of the Pentagon |
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| Week 11: Beautiful Saucer Magnolia tree outside
of the Smithsonian Castle |
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| Week 12: Congressman Lloyd Doggett, me and my
parents |
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| Week 12: The view of the
National Mall from the Speaker's balcony. |
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| Week 12: Dr. Murano with some of the interns
after a hearing she was in town to testify for. |
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| Week 12: President of Texas A&M,
Dr. Murano and me |
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| Week 12: The White House, statue in
President's park, and beautiful tulips |
Where I've been since my last update:
Senate gallery
Senate floor
The Pentagon (tour)
The Speaker’s balcony
Prayer chapel in the
Capitol
Eastern Market
National Postal Museum
Sewall-Belmont House
(tour)
Union Station
National Museum of
American History
Vietnam Women’s
Memorial
Korean War Veteran’s
Memorial
Tidal Basin
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Memorial
Jefferson Memorial
George Mason Memorial
Garden
US Holocaust Memorial
Museum
National Aquarium
Decatur House (tour)
Blair House (outside)
Renwick Gallery
The Octagon (outside)
DAR Headquarters
Organization of
American States (outside)
Verizon Center
National Building
Museum
Carnegie Library
(Historical Society of Washington)
US Navy Memorial and
Naval Heritage Center
