The End of My First D.C. Chapter
December was when we suddenly had to do all the things we had talked about for three months, as well as cheesy American stuff, Christmas spirit activities and final parties and goodbyes.
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We went to our first basketball game. This was a college basketball game between the Georgetown Hoyas from D.C. and the New Jersey somethings, I think. The Verizon Center was pretty empty, and I don’t even remember who won. I remember us having a bet about the final score, and me loosing the bet.
The Washington Semester Student Association invited all the Washington Semester Students to a Second Chance Prom. For some of us this was our first prom, a chance to drink lemonade and dance to bad music. For others, an opportunity to get drunk in their rooms and entertain us all on the dance floor. All great fun!
We went to Alexandria, a beautiful place in Virginia, right outside of D.C. This place holds charming cafes, quircky stores, a nice waterfront and American diners, among others. Group pictures is one of our great joys! This one displays Caroline, Benjamin, me, Daniel, Kristoffer, Henrik and Miriam, exercising extreme sports by the waterfront. We were also (so lucky as to be) entertained by the Supreme Chord Choir.
The Georgetown Media Group office in Georgetown, where Tori and I interned during our Journamlism semester, is a charming old townhouse. We usually prefered the chairs by the fireplace, leaving the desks empty. In December we finally got around to take some pictures inside the office. Tori spent valuable working hours shooting a self-portrait in the mirror in combined kitchen and bathroom.
I nagged people about ice skating for a long time. The first time I tricked someone into going with me, the line was too long. The second time, however, Ingrid, Mari, Brooke, Tori and I got to ice skate for an hour at the Sculpture Garden.
We had a journalism Christmas party at some of the Norwegian girls’ appartyment, with home made mistletoe and a tacky screensaver. This was were we had started the Journalism Tuesday Tradition and it was only fair that this was were we would have our final journalism party!
Our professor also treated us to a mexican meal at Guapos in Tenleytown as a final class party for unit two of the journalism students. The afterparty did, of course, tak place at the local bar, the Dancing Crab, which is were most of the journalism Tuesdays inbetween have been spent.
On our last day of class, we got this extremely touching picture taken. Caroline, me, Jane, Kristoffer, Mary, Caroline, Murphy, Christina, Alexandra, Nico, Elizabeth, Jannik, Luca, Tom, Isabel, Professor Gil Klein, Lisa Mari, Joy, Thomas, Anthony, Linn and Pernille. Toghether we’ve seen a lot of D.C., we’ve met multiple journalist, media lawyers, lobbyists and politicians with more or less interesting stories to tell, we’ve written spot news stories, features and profiles, we’ve read, written, complained and had a lot of fun!
