"Is there a high chance that we'll bump into President Obama on the way to the Bathroom"?

So the road to Germany continued with the Gateway Orientation in D.C. 

So being from New Jersey, there really was no point in me taking a plane to D.C when it was literally a 4 hour drive from NJ to DC. However, this trip was not all rainbows and ice cream, ESPECIALLY SINCE I WAS IN A CAR WITH LEATHER SEATS DURING 90 DEGREE WEATHER. It was so unbearable especially since the air conditioning stopped working half way through the trip, GET IT TOGETHER BMW. 

Any who, when we finally got to D.C., they told us that we could go into the lobby area and say our goodbyes, so being the unemotional type, it was like "business" type of goodbye (SORRY MOM!) (I really suck at goodbyes, I'm too awkward about it). But the girl next to me who was saying good bye to her family was crying and everything and I looked at my mom and my eyes basically said "Should I cry or are we good?" and her eyes basically said "We're fine". Then we took selfies and hugged and all of that good stuff and I went up to my room. When I went to join everyone else in the salon, they were all like in this huge circle and like they looked like they were all close already and it was actually pretty intimidating. But yeah, we did the whole name circle thing and we tried to play a game about secrets but that only lasted for like 3 people and then like everyone decided to break up in the groups of what area we would be going to. I met some pretty awesome people in that group!

So basically the whole time in D.C was full of information meetings about prepping us for being Ambassadors in Germany and our congressional meetings. We began our D.C day by visiting the Lincoln Monument, but we couldn't stay for that long because there was lots of traffic and we had to be at the Department of State office soon.

CBYX 2014-2014 Ambassadors!

So my congressman wasn't in his office that week; it was just our luck that when he was gonna be in Jersey, we were gonna be in D.C. We meet with one of his representatives, Michael Taggart though, who is also from Jersey! He was actually one of the coolest and down to earth type of person ever, and he was a bit funny. It felt more like a conversation instead of a meeting. After the meeting, we had a bit of time until we had to meet back up at the train station, so we walked around a bit (by a bit, I mean we looked at the buildings on the way back to the train station). 

                 

Now on to the AFS/CBYX specific informational meetings. Let me tell you about the coolest group leader ever, Jessica (GO TEAM JESSICA!) She genuinely gave the best advice ever and she was always ahead of the game (I still think it was BS that we got 3rd place in that game, just saying).

Team Jessica (Jessica's in the pink shirt)

Anyway, nothing super exciting happened during the meetings (except for that Supergeil song and music video) so I think I'm gonna end here with the DC post) (OH! I also got some people to try Chipotle for the first time) 

Chipotle Buds

So now it's time for that end of the post song thing again…..

This time, the honor goes to *drum roll*….. SUPERGEIL. The song was literally that entertaining that I had to give it this honor. ENJOY!