I can’t believe I had let two weeks pass without writing anything on here. They have been pretty eventful so let’s hope I can remember everything that happened.
On Monday (of last week) I started my internship. The first day was full of administrative stuff, and getting to know everyone in the office. Since Tuesday though I have been able to get involved and do a lot of different things. My office has people that work closely with issues like juvenile justice, protecting children, gangs, aspects of law that I am pretty interested in. On Wednesday I got to go to the national press club where Denzel Washington spoke at a press conference on behalf of the boys and girls club. They have a new initiative to stop kids from dropping out of school, and the department of justice gave them forty million dollars to fund this program and these new efforts. Denzel was great, he talked about his own experience at the Boys and Girls club, and the importance of education and helping kids stay in school. They also announced the Boys and Girls club person of the year, and it was an eighteen year old girl from Arizona who had a rough life but Boys and Girls club helped her find a way out of all of that. It was a great press conference, and it got me even more excited to do what I am doing here at this internship, and to be a part of this.
Over the weekend we went to Karaoke for my great friend Julie Allen's birthday. it was a great time, there were about twenty of us that went together and we filled the main room. It was a little mexican restaurant/bar that also has spanish music to karaoke to. I sang "hero" by enrique iglesias, and dedicated it to Julie for her birthday. i think it turned our alright. it was a really fun night, and we all got to see wild sides of eachother that we might not have known existed otherwise.
On Saturday I went to Eastern Market for breakfast, which was really fun and delicious.
Tomorrow is the Public Safety Officer Medal of valor ceremony at the white house, and I have been assigned to do lots of things for it because our department is in charge of it. I can't wait, it will be a really neat event. I might get to meet Joe Biden and Atty General eric holder because they are going to be there. Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson will be there too, but I met her on the second day of my internship. She was walking in the building so I held the door for her and we talked all the way inside and up the elevator. She is in charge of my entire building, so she is a pretty big deal. And really nice. It is really neat working around so many people that are so important to the government and to our country. But i should have lots to write after tomorrows events. can't wait!
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