DC- The City of Power

I am here, in the Capital city of the United States. It’s exiting, inspiring and it broadens my horizon in so many ways.

For all those who don’t know me: I am a student from Germany, right now part of the washington semester program for journalism in Washington DC. My dream is to become a good journalist and this is one big step towards the right direction.

For all those at home who are wondering how I am doing here and whether I had a safe trip: Yes and Yes I am doing great. And after I got stuck in London on my way to Washington DC I arrived safely. Since I missed some of the introduction classes it was a little bit hard to organize everything during the first days, but I made it. I am now living in a dorm on campus, I share my room with 2 other girls: a chinese girl who studied in France and is in my program and an American girl with South American origins. This is just a mirror for the whole mixed bunch of people that are here. We have people here from all over the world that are doing different programs.

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So far, I have seen almost all the “tourist places” of DC.

The White House

The Capitol

The Library of Congress, with amazing arts on the walls, an immense collection of books and one of the three perfect existing first Gutenberg bibles in the world. I was very proud of being a representative for my home city Mainz where it was printed. Yeahh:-)

We went to the Senate,

where we had a lot of fun in the official press room where all the important statements are made. We met Ryan Grim, a reporter for the Huffington Post who gave us an insight into the tough business of reporting on the Hill.

This program is just awesome. We have been to the Wall Street Journal, today Ed Henry was our guest speaker, the white house correspondent for CNN.  Wednesday we are going to meet reporters from the Houston Chronicle and the National Press Club…to mention just a few.

So, there are so many new things happening everyday which makes it hard to keep up-to-date with everything. I will try to let you know what is happening here in DC but I can actually only give you a glimpse about what I am experiencing here.

Nevertheless, I hope you have fun reading. Enjoy and take care (how Americans would put it)

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