Getting Started

Wassup people. This is the fist time that I'm doing a blog or anything like this and I don’t know how I'm supposed to start it every time; so I’ll just say hello like I am talking to someone… Hello. The first week you arrive at a new place everything is different, but after a little while you start getting the idea more or less of how things really are going to be.

This is the first time I'm living with people other than my family. Even though there are so many different things, the experience has been easier than I thought it would be. One of the main things I was worried about before coming was not getting along with my roommates--especially after reading all the warnings of The Washington Center saying that there were not many room changes and all problems should be solved between roommates. But everything has been quite good so far. The three guys are really cool people, and I don’t think we will have any major problems in these coming months. My roommates are from Iowa, Massachusetts and New Hampshire; from what I’ve seen so far it is a very different experience for them also, which is a good thing.

Washington D.C. is full of great things anyone can take advantage of. I didn’t know this was such an attractive place for tourists. There are a lot of people coming from the whole country to visit all the museums, the White House, the Pentagon and all that. Every week there are concerts (a lot of them are free), volunteering events, conferences and many other things you can do. You will never get bored in this city unless you want to.

I like every once in a while stay at home and do nothing the whole day--just eat and watch TV, but this is very difficult in D.C. because there are so many cool things you can be doing instead of that jaja. So I guess I will not have a lot of rest in the next few months.

This week I did some more internet projects at Voice of America. We get to do some interesting things. In the morning sometimes we go to a meeting where all the chiefs of each geographical division talk about the most important happenings in their region, so in half an hour I get to know the most important news worldwide before anybody else. Also for my class (Global Marketing Strategies) I have to read at least three newspapers every day, so this is the fist time in my life that I know so many things about the world’s current happenings.

Voice of America is a really big agency. To be honest, I didn’t know anything about them before interning here. When they told me about the opportunity to intern at VOA I hesitated a little, but then I started doing some research about them I got excited that they had chosen me.

I have done some traveling before, but when I started talking to the other interns I realized that they all have traveled a lot around the world and they know two or more languages; they like international people there. VOA is a very international building, if you want a translation of any language you go there and it is 90% probable that you will find one or more persons that can do the job for you.

Right now I am very happy with how things are going here...good people, excellent class, cool job, amazing city, fancy apartment… I couldn’t ask for more; well, I could, but it wouldn’t be realistic jaja.

Here are some pictures of the apartment, and our view from the 20th floor. Hasta pronto.