Well, I'm at the three week mark of my semester! I can't believe that I've been in D.C. for almost three months, and I'll be leaving in just a few weeks. This semester has flown by.
I'm making some more progress on my film - I practiced editing with the film from the wedding I mentioned in my first post. It just seems like such a monumental task that I don't really know where to start! I've worked on a script and have started working out which clips I want to use, but it's still pretty daunting.
I had a fantastic meeting at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on Monday. The institute focuses on education reform and policy, and I learned a lot. I thought I was pretty knowledgeable on the topic because so much of what we do at work is about education, but I definitely didn't know as much as a thought! I spoke with one of their policy experts, and she actually recommended some really interesting studies and ideas for to me look at. I love talking to people who are so passionate about what they do.
I was pretty busy helping our event planner this week. I had to look through agenda for about a decade's worth of meetings and put together a spreadsheet of speakers - it ended up being nearly one thousand people long. I know that doesn't sound very exciting, but it was actually neat to see these really recognizable names and organizations that our group has a relationship with. My next project is writing a piece on public-private philanthropy projects.
Classes are going well too - I'm going to have finals starting up in less than two weeks. The weather has been ridiculously spastic - high 80s yesterday, 50s today. I sat out and watched a storm roll in last night. I felt like I was back in the South :)
On a side note, I ate Ethiopian food on Wednesday! We went to a place up in Georgetown after class. It was definitely unlike anything I've had before. They brought out this huge pan covered in flat, spongy bread, and then just dumped everyone's entrees onto the bread! You don't get any utensils - the waiters brought us rolls of the bread that you scoop the food up in. I have a feeling my food experiences in Ghana this summer are going to be pretty interesting...
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