5 Blocks From The White House

November 25th, 2006 at 07:36pm rochelle 35

Hello from Washington D.C...yep I am in D.C. here to train as a member of the National Team for the American Red Cross Volunteer Disaster Reserve Team. I left Aspen as it was snowing this morning and arrived in D.C. where it was near 60 degrees.My observations of the day include the enjoyment of people watching at D.I.A.-where everyone looks unique and not like a picture from an advertisement in Aspen Magazine...another observation there is some quiet enjoyment knowing that no one knows me here...while being a radio personality is not huge on the celebrity scale-it is nice to be perhaps as unique as a D.I.A. passenger...my last observation of the day is to realize of all the people I have encountered here since I arrived I find that I am the minority...this is truly a multi-cultural city and well educated. While having coffee at the Caribou Cafe I was surrounded by GW University students studying and I found myself engrossed in the Washington Post where residents wrote their distaste of a photo the paper ran of our President smiling in front of a bust of Ho Chi Minh. The photo is bad and I'm sure it is one of those things the President will cringe about for the rest of his life. Anyway more to come from 5 blocks from the White House.

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