The National Cherry Blossom Festival

Washington D.C.'s pride the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
The Blossoms are all over the place around the mall, and also in a lot of places around Washington.
They line the Potomac River and people line the bridges to take the iconic pictures of them.

It was not uncommon for people to be right up in front of a tree taking pictures, and using extremely high tech cameras to do it.
I on the other hand just had my snazzy little digital camera to take these high quality photo's.
People lining up along the bridge over the Potomac just to see the line up of pink and white trees.
This was a tree that was right by where I live.

White House Protests

My teacher for Peace and Social Justice told us about this protest told us about this Anti-war protest that was going to be taking place across from the White House. So I went to go and check it out. There was pretty big turn out, almost 700 people showed up.
This was the organization that put the protest on, they were called Code Pink a woman's anti-war organization that has been going on since the Vietnam War.
Ralph Nadar showed up to make a very interesting speech against the war.

The protest was a day long event and was also supported by Veteren's for Peace.Protesters preforming a chant to have to government let Bradley Manning (the soldier whistle blower about the wikileaks) go.

Meeting the Senator

As a part of my internship, I also get to do a lot of work on the Hill doing lobbying for our causes, which means I get to go to a lot of the senate offices, I also fortunately work a lot with Sen. Casey's office.
Senator Casey has a "Breakfast with Bob" for his constituents two times every month. So I took the opportunity to meet my senator.

Arlington National Cemetary
The City which I call home for over three months.

John F. Kennedy's Grave

The changing of the guard at the tomb of unknown soldiers.

The Embassy of Indonesia

For one of our "Monday Programmings" that I mentioned we went to the Embassy of Indonesia, we learned about U.S./Indonesian relations, and had some really tasty food.

The Embassy itself was very pretty, lots of elegant artwork everywhere.

The Year of the Rabbit

The first celebration of the year, the Chinese Lunar New Year, The Year of the Rabbit.
The U.S. flag, and the Taiwanese Flag lined H st.
The parade celebrating the New Year. The zodiac Animals walked the streets.
Dragons flew through the parade flying in and out of the crowds.

The Capitol Visit

This was the statue that represented the state of PA.
We also happened to pass by the office of Speaker of the House John Boehner.
The Rotunda of the Capitol Building.
As a program with the Washington Center, we got a tour of the Capitol.