Monat: Januar 2015

Hi,

my time in Washington so far is really awesome. I stay with my host Charlie and live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood which is only a 10 minute walk to my office building. I also got lucky with my office I work for. I work for my home district congressman from southern Illinois who is very nice. I already went to media conferences and had to write memo´s, but mostly I am on the front desk or have research assignments to do which are always very interesting. I also will give tours for constituents through the Capitol. I am also allowed to join as many hearings and briefings as I want. 🙂 I have a good, good time!!

my host Charlie and I

Hi,

I hope everybody is doing great at home?!
Between finishing my study semester at the Olney community college and Christmas, I used my leisure and travelled for a few days to the east coast visiting my friend Hanah in San Diego. Despite the season of year, San Diego is the place with always warm and T-shirt weather what I really enjoyed since the winter season have already started in Olney. 🙂
Over the weekend we drove up to a friends cabin in the mountains of California. We got a lot of new snow and went night skiing which was great. That is one reason why I really like San Diego, because they got the warm temperatures in the city and after a two hours drive to the mountains, they got snow and best conditions for skiing. Remember also the delicious Mexican food.

Christmas was a very special and unique experience for me. It was nice to see how American´s celebrate those days with their family and friends. I had my first own sock at the chimney which we all know from American movies. On Christmas Eve (12/24th) we went to a special church service and after coming back we all could open one gift which is tradition in our hostfamily. Next morning (12/25th) we all got up very early and opend all our gifts which took ages, since we had hundreds of gifts. 🙂 The rest of our Christmas days, we spent the time together with the family and friends.

On NYE I travelled to Nashville, TN with three American friends and spent the night there. One good friend of them plays the drums in a live band there, which was really an awesome band.

Hanah and I

night skiing

first seal which I´ve seen in nature

our christmas tree

NYE with Mackenzie, Megan and Wes