| WASHINGTON D.C. for NYLCI'm still in D.C. waiting for padre to pick me up. & its snowing. so that will probably take a while. yeah.
oh in case you didn't know I was attending (I guess still considered am attending) National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) in Washington D.C. at the National 4H Center. bored right now cuz a lot of my friends left. I'm in the recreation room on the computer & hoping my dad will be able to get here time because I am deprived of sleep.
Tuesday-got up around 7am and left the house at 9am for D.C. drove for about 2&half hours & stopped at Starbucks for lunch. then went to the center, arrived 5 minutes before registration. got my room & went down for the registration. as soon as i walked in, the whole entire room applauded & yayyed/cheered. apparentely I was the first out of the 350 students to arrive. cool huh ?
then I met my roommates & attended some college seminar, tour of the campus, welcome to washington & a keynote speaker Kevin Bales who is President of Free the Slaves. it was really inspiring. did you know there are 27 million slaves today? more then ever, sadly. & an average slave costs $90. ridicolous.
then I met my group, Armstrong. they were pretty cool, <3. apparently we were Democratic Leadership as compared to Caucus(create/revise bill), Committees(discuss/question potential of bill). Leadership is basically the "lawyers" or representers of the whole thing. Our job is to persuade people to vote for Democrat.
Wednesday-breakfast at 7am ( so friggin early), Simluation of "If I were President", I was Director of CIA, pretty sweet. we had some situation that we were in 2009 & there was a war in Sudan. then we had a speaker Jo Anne Barnhart, who is the Commissioner of Social Security Administration and appointed by Prez. Bush. she was boring cuz she talked forever, i mean this lady did not shut up. & she was not direct at all. when you ask a question, she talks about everything around that area. nobody liked her.
more LGM(Leadership Group Meetings), then lunch at Dupont Circle where a bunch of the girls(Hannah, Emily, Betsy, Rachel, meee) ate chicago pizza & Rachel &I went to a bead shop =]. flippin sweet. then we went to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, & Vietnam Veterans Memorial. then more LGM, dinner, LGM, Leadership Workshops-I did Dream It, Do It basically a social entrepreneurship. It was hilarious cuz we had to come up with commercials to improve problems in societyy. then more LGM, State Delegate Mixer(lotta NJ people!!) & there were two guys from Marlton. what are the odds ya know? Greg Morris went to my middle school (now at Shawnee) & Mike F. goes to Camden Catholic but i swear I've seen him somewhere.
then i passed out around 1am.
Thursday-6am breakfast(even more early...), go to CAPITOL HILL & sat in the seats of the Floor of the House of Representatives where Bush just gave the state of the union address or something. met former member of congress David Skaggs. that was pretty sweet. walked around the Senate & House buildings, met with the staff of my senators & one represenative cuz they weren't in their office =( thats the whole point I came on this thing...to met my leaders. sighh.
then to WWII Memorial, prettttyyy. dinner, LGM-testing the Constitution, then a variety/talent show. was friggin hilarious cuz people rapped. cool cuz 3 hawaiian people danced/hula-ed for us. wish I could shake my ass like that hahaha.
bed around 2
Friday-leave 7am for National Press Club. had breakfast with them, asked questions about the current events etc. then to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Thomas Jefferson Memorial, then Lunch in Georgetown in some Italian restaurant. then roamed around a mall before going on the bus. then we had a town hall discussion, i went to the first amendment one. apparentely, ours was the only one that was actually interesting & controversial. i found the whole controversial ridicolous. but im not goint to talk about that here cuz I dont have time.
LGM, dinner, LGm, Committee Hearings/court, LGM, Caucus Preparation, Committee Reviews, Leadership Briefings, LGM, picking our speakers. we made them tell us their favorite disney cartoon movie character & sing the answer. & do a catwalk. & of course why they should be a general speaker/representative of the Democrat Party. the guys were hilarious.
bed around 1.
Saturday-breakfast around 7:30am, walked to white house for a photo, Department of the Interior for the GENERAL SESSION (basically the court hearing we've been working on all week), it went well, except Democrats lost. I was kinda upset cuz I think the Republicans cheated. I was a WHIP (pt-shhhh) & I had to count every single person when they voted. but yeah it was intense. well the whole friggin bill supported Republicans anyway, & yeah it was hard to argue against it. though it wasnt the best bill you could make. oh well.
then to National American History Museum/Smithsonian Museum. borrringggg.
then later that night we had a dance, but it was at the 4H Center cuz of the snoww. ughh.
it was sooo much fun. then again I havent really done anything social since Christmas.
& no dances since October.
i partied like an animal.
& i got all the guys in my group to dance. they were hilarious, doing the robot ,etc. reminds me of my guy friends at cherokee :) haha some poor guys didnt know how to or they never been to one.
Today-snowingg. so im stuck here. waiting for dad to pick me up. im borrrreeed. & yeah its so sad to leave these people.
I'll hopefully have pictures to post when I get home.
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