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Washington DC

Capitolicious

October 25, 2010

The Capitol Building is pretty lovely looking and very grand indeed.  Its domed roof is a very distinctive part of the Washington skyline. The United States Capitol building is where Congress and the federal legislature meet.  I really want to do a tour inside sometime, but for now I’ve just been content looking around it. [...]

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Pumpkin pie and other such joys

October 25, 2010

It’s pumpkin time in America!  Next weekend is Halloween, and there are pumpkins everywhere.  Outside people’s houses, in the supermarkets, everywhere. And they are also delicious. Last night, some of my grad school friends went crazy in the kitchen with pumpkins, making a delicious pumpkin soup and *drumroll* pumpkin pie! We mostly only made the [...]

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Newseum

October 25, 2010

9/11 Exhibit at the Newseum I love news. I have devoted several years of my life to news. If someone came up to me and said “hi, I have an intravenous drip that will deliver scrolling news stories across the back of your eyeballs for 24 hours a day” I would probably stick out my [...]

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Monumental air

October 25, 2010

Kids skateboarding off the stairs on one of the many, many, many monuments along Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Capitol Building, Washington DC. Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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I’m alive!

October 17, 2010

Sorry the blog has been neglected for a month! I’ve been really sick with bronchitis, really busy with school and reading, and time has just vanished. I shouldn’t even be blogging right now, I have a midterm exam on Wednesday! Here’s a couple of small things to tide you over until I next blog, which [...]

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Things you never knew about Washington DC

September 18, 2010

Life here isn’t all about eating Potbelly sandwiches, drinking malts and reading the Washington Post while some dude does slow jam covers of pop songs in the corner on a guitar.  Unfortunately.  Because let me tell you, the Washington Post is a much easier read compared to some of the dense academic theory I’ve been [...]

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The Tea Party

September 15, 2010

I went downtown on Sunday afternoon to take in one of DC’s many Smithsonian museums.  When I got out of the Metro station, I was smack bang in the middle of another tea party protest. I honestly don’t really get the tea party, so I’m not going to try and explain it to you.  There’s [...]

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The Washington Monument

August 31, 2010

The Washington Monument, pictured on a day when the National Mall was not overrun by the tea party movement like it was over the weekend. People have been like, “why aren’t you blogging?”  The response to that is that I have been super busy and stressed.  Things are working out now, but I am going [...]

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DC in a Nutshell

August 23, 2010

Washington DC is one of the only places in the world where educated people come to spend their summers being exploited.  The city would crumble without free labor. When one of our lecturers said this the other day at orientation (not a direct quote, but this was the gist of it), we all laughed.  Then [...]

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Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Washington DC

August 19, 2010

My first American food post and my first post about Washington DC! Here goes. Even though I’m mostly preoccupied with househunting at the moment, I have been eating.  Some of it has been purely for survival i.e. sandwiches from 7-11 (I really need a house so I don’t have to eat this stuff!).   But I’ve [...]

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I’m a kid in America (woah)

August 14, 2010

I’ve arrived in the states.  I haven’t finished my Albury blogging or even my Indonesia blogging, but here I am in a brand new country!  Whirlwind of wonder! I spent a couple of days in LA and am now in Washington DC, where I will be living for the next two years or so (a [...]

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