Work

Hello! If my family does not leave comments so that I know you are reading, I will quit posting! I mean it!

I have had two full days of work. I am very, very tired.
This is my office building. It is the Russell Senate Office Building. There are two more. Our first day was lots of meeting people and orientations. We did get to see Senator Enzi, but only during a staff meeting with Wyoming. They teleconferenced in. They let us sit in on it and introduce ourselves. Later, I got a little desk in one of the offices. The craziest thing was that they sent us on two teams on a scavenger hunt (in which we had to get everything from business cards to pamphlets) of various places through out the Senate Office Buildings, Capitol and House Offices without any clue. It was kind of brilliant though because we ended up learning where everything was all on our own. It is still kind of shocking to actually be in the Senate! I have a big ID card I have to have visible at all times. The only problem is I wore a new pair of high-heeled shoes that literally cut and rubbed my feet until they were bleeding.
I found out that we have to start giving tours of the Capitol on Thursday. The only problem is that I’ve only been in there a couple times! We have to give tours on our own routes with our own research in just a couple days. I spent almost all day though walking around and memorizing facts from websites. Wish me luck, I already have two tours scheduled on Thursday and two on Friday… Also, the people in the office give us various errands to run. Once I get over the initial panic of having no idea where I volunteered to take something, I am pretty good at figuring it out.
The coolest thing though is the environment. I walked around a corner today (after spending all day admiring the Capitol) and very nearly crashed into John Kerry! Being a lowly intern, we are not supposed to run into the Senators. He is as tall and craggy as he appears on TV. I am surrounded by so much history, I have to stop rushing and take it in. I get to walk the halls that many of the most influential people in our history walked!