Welcome, Everyone!!!

I want to welcome you to my blog. I am pretty excited to have been selected to share my experiences with you all. I was a big fan of the previous TWC bloggers and I learned a few things that really helped me as I prepared for DC. Once I was admitted to the Political Leadership Program earlier this year I began to wonder about the housing, the internship opportunities, the class I was going take, what kind of work I would have to do for TWC, how to enjoy the city the best way possible, etc. And while The Washington Center does a decent job of letting you know what you will expect once you arrive to DC, it doesn’t hurt to get a perspective of what you’ll expect from a student who is going through those experiences step by step.

I’ll use my blog to share with you my personal experiences while also shining some light onto the different aspects of TWC experience as a whole. I’ll do my best to keep my blog interesting enough for you to come back every week. I try to take my camera with me everywhere I go so you will be seeing pictures and video recordings that hopefully will give you a better idea of what to expect if you think this is something you want to do next semester.

For now let me talk to you about some of events I have attended for TWC. Since I arrived last Wednesday, I’ve taken part of my Political Leadership Program orientation first at the TWC main office in DC, as well as of an orientation/opening for all students at the Carnegie Institute for Science on Friday the 4th. Juan Williams--an author, NPR and FOX News contributor--spoke to us during the opening ceremony. He had some very interesting comments about the kind of changing environment we were witnessing. An environment where now women make up most of the workforce in the United States, and where (according to him) new communication technologies make it a lot harder for different waves of immigrants to completely leave aside their ties with their countries of origin and thus challenging our political leaders to make working policies in this changing America.

I found his comments very interesting; I wish I could say the same about a couple of the questions that were asked to him in the Q&A segment (too much rambling, just ask the question already!!) but in the overall a very nice start to what I hope will be an exciting semester.
I will leave you with a picture I managed to get with Juan Williams as he was leaving and a little video of some of his comments about immigration and healthcare.

TWC Headquarters

Political Leadership Orientation

I have a lot more details on my housing and my internship placement, as well as pictures and videos to share so I hope you’ll be back for my next post. Don’t be shy and post any questions, comments or look me up on facebook if there is something in particular you would like to know.
Until the next time!