Inside the Beltway and Far From Home

So here we are, my first blog. Currently I am 8 days away from my departure for Washington D.C., and procrastinating my last paper of my junior year at UNH. I hope this blog will be as enjoyable for anyone to read as it will be for me to write. I look forward to sharing all of my experiences with my readers. Whether I am writing about work, social, school, or just plain fun stuff, I want this blog to be a reflection of my time in Washington. Let me just outline a few things for those of you who may not know too much about me: I have never been outside of New Hampshire for for longer then two weeks, I have lived within 15 minutes of my home all of my life except for a 2 month stint living with a boyfriend and commuting, and lastly I have never lived with anyone before let alone shared a room with someone. I admit I am scared to leave New Hampshire and the friends and family I am so close to, but I am excited to get out into the "real world" and put everything I have been taught into place.

So for those of you would like to periodically check in and see how im fairing in D.C. and what I am doing, I welcome your comments. I will be interning at the EPA in the Office of Policy Review in the Air and Radiation office. I will be living at Jefferson at Inigo's Crossing in North Bethesda, Maryland. I will be taking one coarse in D.C. titled the Congressional Arena....how barbaric! The final detail is I will be flying out of Manchester at 9:00am on May 27th for what will be the scariest and most exciting expierence of my life so far, and I just found out the EPA is paying for the flight!!! I hope to learn a lot from my time in D.C., not only about environmental policy, a passion Prof. Vandeveer has created within me, but also to learn about myself without the barriers of life as I have always known it.

I will try and update again before I leave and once I am in Washington I will be updating, at minimum, once a week for Prof. Siggelakis and the credit I am recieving. I hope to keep this interesting for all of you but also reflective for me. I can't promise fantastic grammer or that a few expletives wont find their way into my writing, but I will say this blog will be honest, hopefully interesting, and funny (Not like Wait Wait Don't Tell Me funny but I will do my best).