A fun and slightly tiring weekend

Well a lot has been going on since I last wrote. I've been staying busy and enjoying life in this city. I'll start with Thursday night since that is where I left off. My director offered the interns a chance to go to a dance concert, Dance: Yes we can!, at the Landsburgh theatre which is a part of the Shakespeare theatre company. One of my room mates, Maddie and I decided to go. The show was really good and featured dance companies and ensembles from the D.C. area. It was a mix of comtemporary, modern, hip-hop, step, ballet, and other cultural dances such as african. I really enjoyed the performance and I also got to experience some of Chinatown. Before the show, Maddie and I got sushi and some ice cream to eat which was really good.

On Friday I got to sleep in and make some money! One of our staff here at Dance Place, has his own dance theatre company with his wife and needed someone to pick some people up from the metro to take them to the theatre because they had a show this weekend. So I made some money and saw the show for free! So I was most definitely happy about that.
I had to get up early Saturday to start my first day of studio managing. I came to discover there are a ton of things you have to do before the studio opens for the day. Lots of cleaning and setting things up before people arrive for dance classes in the morning/afternoon. Once things are all open and set up then people will come in for class and I learned how to sign them in for class and such. It was a lot to take in at first but I certainly like it a lot better than doing office hours. So I went in at 8:30 and got off around 12:30, had lunch, and walked down the street to the organic market close by and picked up a few things. I then got ready for the night. One of my other roommates, Courtney and I had planned to go see the crime and punishment museum and see some of the monuments at night with her sister who lives close by. The museum had a lot of interesting facts about criminals, crimes, serial killers, etc. It had some interactive parts to it as well, I think my favorite was probably scanning my fingerprints and then it printed them out on a card and told you why you were being "arrested". It told me I committed battery. haha anyways, after that we grabbed a bite to eat at Chipotle then headed down a few blocks to see the monuments. We saw the Washington monument, WWII memorial, and Lincoln Memorial. My feet were hurting pretty bad from all the walking! Then, after that Courtney and I decided to go meet up with 2 of the other interns in Adams Morgan which is the place to be. It is definitely the more party scene but we didn't stay long, hung out until they finished their dinner and listened to some karaoke then headed home because we were all really tired.

Finally Sunday! I decided to go to National Community Church that I discovered through googling. It has 5 locations and the one closest to me was union station, which is 2 metro stops away from me. So I got off at union station, had my map and directions in hand, when I looked it up online it looked really easy to find. Well, I had arrived at union station a little after 11:30 to make the 12pm service. I started walking and I got really confused as where to go, the walking directions didn't make sense to me and the map I had wasn't specific on the little side streets I was finding. I finally found some streets on the map I came to, finally realized that I had walked 7 blocks past the church :( of course it was quite hot today so I was sweating and my feet were hurting again. I finally found the right road and then the church which actually meets at a coffee shop. Luckily, I was only 10 min. late. The first floor is the coffee shop and then you walk downstairs to where service is. It isn't too big of a space which is probably one of the reasons why they have 4 services here. I really enjoyed the music and message. It was really contemporary and Christine Caine from Hillsong (church in Australia and a bunch of places in the world/popular worship band) spoke which was really good. Most of the sermons are from video since the church has 5 locations in D.C. I had filled out a connection card and when I got home I saw where they had already emailed me! So I thought that was pretty cool to have a response that fast. After church, I found out that the church is literally right next to union station...at least now I know! I also discovered a 3 story mall full of shops and food at union station! They have a tons of stores like Ann Taylor, Express, Barnes and Noble, starbucks, victoria's secret, chicos, white house black market, and a bunch more others. So I decided to look around for a bit and I need a part time job to make money for food and extra things to do so I thought this would be a good place. I was talking to a lady who worked in White House Black Market about why I was in D.C. who I later discovered was the manager. She was really nice and it came to find out she had taken some classes at Dance Place before a couple years ago. Soo before I left I wanted to see if they were hiring and so I got an application and I have an interview on Friday so hopefully that will work out! Well that is the most recent things going on, kinda long so I am proud if you have made it to the end of this entry haha.