days 1 and 2

i have officially been in DC now for two days. and i LOVE it!! it has been so fun. it is just so crazy to me that i am living out here now. i seriously say to the other girls like all day "i cant believe we are living here" it is a pretty great feeling. here is a little recap of what i have been doing the past two days.

Yesterday. I went out with one of the other girls Naomi to begin looking around at our new home. first destination the mall. we got on the metro and immediately got lost. which is ridiculous because we were looking for the Washington Monument. how can you not find that thing? luckily we found it. after some brief rain (just wait five minutes and the weather changes) we headed in the direction of the Capitol. The girls that are here have never been to DC before so i have been able to tell them about different things that we are seeing. we wandered over to the supreme court and the library of congress. then we went off to Georgetown. loved it! it was the first time that i ever cursed myself for going to BYU. that place was amazing!! the city is really really cool and looks very colonial. i was hoping general Washington was going to ride around the corner on his horse any second. we walked around the university and they had such amazing enthusiasm for the school and for the new students moving in. they were dancing everywhere and so of course Chanel and i couldn't resist to start dancing too. which then led us to scream things such as "yay Georgetown! cant wait for freshman year to start!" so that we could blend in. we walked around entirely too much yesterday and ended the day by sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and just chatted for a bit. very cool.

Today. Started the day off by majorly sleeping in. its the whole time difference thing. then i went off with my new roommate Jamie to find a grocery store (hopefully this makes Laura and mom super happy as their only advice to me for the past two days was that i needed to find a grocery store. thanks guys.) its not too far of a walk and we got to pass nordstrom on the way! the grocery store is LEGIT. it totally showed me that we are living in a really nice area. it is just way nice and they have all these free samples of like cut up apples and bread and cheese spread. i love that place. after hanging out at the apartment for a bit too long we took off to Arlington National Cemetery to catch a glimpse of Ted Kennedy's funeral. this took entirely too long as we thought the procession was going to be quicker but since we were there we didn't want to leave. then we invested so much time into being there we figured we had to stick around to see it. we decided to ditch Arlington and walk across the Potomac so that we would get to the procession faster. it was a bit of a disappointment (sorry ted) but definitely a cool thing to be able to see on a first hand basis. then off to the Lincoln Memorial. I'm super excited being at these places and taking my own photos to use them as resources in my classroom. i cant wait to show my students all of my very own photos of these places. our next stop was to get some food. we have a growing problem of not taking a map with us. so needless to say we get lost a lot. and that definitely happened today. we walked around so much trying to find places to eat and found nada. but it was still nice walking and seeing everything. we stumbled upon The George Washington University which also looked amazing. its so cool that it is just right in the heart of the district. we haven't been the most on top of things to seeing everything but we definitely have time to in the next few months. so far i love being here and the girls in my apartment are great too.

next on the agenda is church tomorrow. its at 9. boo. my days of sleeping in are pretty much over. oh and our church building apparently looks over Mount Vernon. OMG. no big deal.