It can be quite exciting working on the Hill sometimes. As part of our internship at Congressman Schiff's office, we get to go to House and Senate Committee hearings and see the big wigs do what they do best - talk. I always mean to bring my camera but I always forget but I do have some blurry shots.
My first Committee Hearing was of the House Foreign Affairs Committee where Former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright testified against the proposed troop surge in Iraq. I got to sit two metres away from her which was very exciting. She's quite small...
Later on, I got to see Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright testify again, but this time it was in front of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
Another buzz, was seeing Condoleeza Rice and Robert Gates (the new Defense Secretary). I jealous of Christina today because I found a hearing for her to go to and she got to see Bill Gates and Hillary Clinton. However, I got to see Nancy Pelosi (the Speaker of the House) instead.
These hearings with Condi can get quite interesting as there are usually protestors from CODEPINK who hold up signs, heckle and get quite agitated before they are escorted out by the Capitol Police. I even got on C-Span because I was sitting next to some.
This is a really blurry shot that I was trying to take of Jesse Jackson.
Apart from that, we get to see lots of Congressmen and women, and lots of Senators at these hearings. I got so excited when I saw Barack Obama, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. I've also seen Joseph Biden a fair bit too.
This photo of Boxer and Kerry makes me laugh...
When Biden and Obama were pals...
My first Committee Hearing was of the House Foreign Affairs Committee where Former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright testified against the proposed troop surge in Iraq. I got to sit two metres away from her which was very exciting. She's quite small...
Later on, I got to see Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright testify again, but this time it was in front of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
Another buzz, was seeing Condoleeza Rice and Robert Gates (the new Defense Secretary). I jealous of Christina today because I found a hearing for her to go to and she got to see Bill Gates and Hillary Clinton. However, I got to see Nancy Pelosi (the Speaker of the House) instead.
These hearings with Condi can get quite interesting as there are usually protestors from CODEPINK who hold up signs, heckle and get quite agitated before they are escorted out by the Capitol Police. I even got on C-Span because I was sitting next to some.
This is a really blurry shot that I was trying to take of Jesse Jackson.
Apart from that, we get to see lots of Congressmen and women, and lots of Senators at these hearings. I got so excited when I saw Barack Obama, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. I've also seen Joseph Biden a fair bit too.
This photo of Boxer and Kerry makes me laugh...
When Biden and Obama were pals...
On a cold, extremely blustery day, we decided to go to the Zoo. It was fun, but was so windy I was sure my ears were going to freeze off. This zoo wasn't as good as San Diego, but it was free and we got to see the giant pandas which is what this zoo is known for.
Something from back home...I still don't like them though.
I want to sleep just like this panda, out basking in the sun's rays.
I'm quite fond of the beaver, its very cute...
GO-RIL-LA!!
Afterwards, we decided to go explore Union Station and do some shopping. It's really quite a magnificent building.
Something from back home...I still don't like them though.
I want to sleep just like this panda, out basking in the sun's rays.
I'm quite fond of the beaver, its very cute...
GO-RIL-LA!!
Afterwards, we decided to go explore Union Station and do some shopping. It's really quite a magnificent building.
There's lots of fun to be had living in DC with your friends only living a few doors away, not to mention with your roommates. Lucky for me, I was assigned two crazy biatches to live with - Laura and Veronica who provide me with hours of entertainment. So the following pics are of random parties and outings we had, or just those times when I had my camera handy.
I should be a total wanker and send this to Rove.
This is when we went to a hookah bar and had flavored tobacco.
Ben the Beautiful from Adelaide had a party in his apartment, themed "Office Hos and CEOs." Guess which one we chose to dress up as?
The ever gorgeous Veronica.
I should be a total wanker and send this to Rove.
This is when we went to a hookah bar and had flavored tobacco.
Ben the Beautiful from Adelaide had a party in his apartment, themed "Office Hos and CEOs." Guess which one we chose to dress up as?
The ever gorgeous Veronica.
So I decided to go to experience the greyness that is NY on the weekend where DC got really nice weather and visit my old pal Jamie from home. Jamie, for those of you unfamiliar, is one of my good friends from high school and uni. She went on exchange to UPenn and decided that she loved the US so much that she had to stay and now she's living in Willyburg, Brooklyn which was where I stayed for the weekend.
This was the first kinda touristy thing I saw - the Manhattan Bridge. The dodgy Chinatown bus, after leaving a guy behind at a reststop even though all his stuff was still on board, dropped us off at Canal St in Chinatown where I was greeted with chaos and people peddling fake everything. It's seriously the worst introduction to NYC for a tourist.
I finally managed to find the correct subway line and made it to Chelsea to meet up with Jamie and Anthony (who I know via a convoluted way which I shan't share this time round) to go touring around some of Chelsea's little art galleries. In the Chelsea Art Gallery, we got to ride teacups with rubber babies that had no eyes and Jamie broke one.
Then we sauntered around for a bit more and decided that we couldn't take Chelsea's pretentiousness anymore and decided to to East Village to get some chow and meet up with Felix who is a friend of Jamie's also from Melbourne. We also decided to go see some art there and found this picture of a frontal wedgie. Ouch.]
Me and Jims on the subway
The next day, after having a little Melbourne breakfast party in a Diner uptown with other Melbournians we knew in NYC, we went and frolicked in Central Park on the way to the gallery in Spanish Harlem.
It looks like England. So much for trying to get away from the mother country...
We also went to see the Studio Museum in Harlem. The trip itself was very interesting...we walked by the Apollo Theatre where James Brown lay in honor after his death.
After Spanish Harlem, we went to the Bronx to see the Brazilian Tropicalia exhibit there which was way cool, and also saw Yankee Stadium.
That night we decided to rent a DVD and we saw a selection of Aussie classic flix...in the Foreign English Language section...mmmhm.
So I wasn't all that touristy in NY as I really just trailed Anthony on his pilgrimage of NY art galleries, but it was a good trip. I really like Williamsburg in Brooklyn too - full of hipsters. It was like you had to have a goatee and skinny jeans to join the club.
This was the first kinda touristy thing I saw - the Manhattan Bridge. The dodgy Chinatown bus, after leaving a guy behind at a reststop even though all his stuff was still on board, dropped us off at Canal St in Chinatown where I was greeted with chaos and people peddling fake everything. It's seriously the worst introduction to NYC for a tourist.
I finally managed to find the correct subway line and made it to Chelsea to meet up with Jamie and Anthony (who I know via a convoluted way which I shan't share this time round) to go touring around some of Chelsea's little art galleries. In the Chelsea Art Gallery, we got to ride teacups with rubber babies that had no eyes and Jamie broke one.
Then we sauntered around for a bit more and decided that we couldn't take Chelsea's pretentiousness anymore and decided to to East Village to get some chow and meet up with Felix who is a friend of Jamie's also from Melbourne. We also decided to go see some art there and found this picture of a frontal wedgie. Ouch.]
Me and Jims on the subway
The next day, after having a little Melbourne breakfast party in a Diner uptown with other Melbournians we knew in NYC, we went and frolicked in Central Park on the way to the gallery in Spanish Harlem.
It looks like England. So much for trying to get away from the mother country...
We also went to see the Studio Museum in Harlem. The trip itself was very interesting...we walked by the Apollo Theatre where James Brown lay in honor after his death.
After Spanish Harlem, we went to the Bronx to see the Brazilian Tropicalia exhibit there which was way cool, and also saw Yankee Stadium.
That night we decided to rent a DVD and we saw a selection of Aussie classic flix...in the Foreign English Language section...mmmhm.
So I wasn't all that touristy in NY as I really just trailed Anthony on his pilgrimage of NY art galleries, but it was a good trip. I really like Williamsburg in Brooklyn too - full of hipsters. It was like you had to have a goatee and skinny jeans to join the club.
It was pretty exciting this morning to wake up and be greeted with snow falling outside our window. We decided to make the most of it and spend the day inside a shopping mall - haha.
We did however, engage in the obligatory snowball fight on the 4th Floor terrace.
Lovely Laura (the Amazon) and me
Chris covered up his glorious crop of ginger on this day
GAMES ON MOLES!! It was the girls VS. Brandon and Chris
Osman and Laura - COME 'ERE!!!
I think this picture sums up our day quite nicely...
We did however, engage in the obligatory snowball fight on the 4th Floor terrace.
Lovely Laura (the Amazon) and me
Chris covered up his glorious crop of ginger on this day
GAMES ON MOLES!! It was the girls VS. Brandon and Chris
Osman and Laura - COME 'ERE!!!
I think this picture sums up our day quite nicely...
old days
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
