Book Em Dano!!!

Today(Monday) I actually did something related to City Year! Holla holla!!! Six days after I arrived in D.C., I went and met about 25 other corp members for a background check. The whole process took about two hours, but time went much quicker.

Sean and I arrived at the destination and immediately started making conversation with people around us. Learning about new people, why they joined City Year, and their future plans is righteous. Everyone is so driven, but that seems essential for this program.

One chick, Carly, went to Miami and studied architecture, and seeing how Jim is an architect, it gave us a talking point. Another kid, Jared, is working to become a Marine and another dude, Matt, is from Gettysburg and does paranormal research. I told him about my paranormal experience while staying at my Mom's. It's kinda freaky, but here's how it went.

One night while watching my Grandpap at night, I was awoken around 4:00 a.m. to someone banging in the kitchen. I sounded like a mortar and pestle (Science reference, if you don't know what it is, look it up!) As I opened my eyes, I saw a green ball of light by the doorway and suddenly the orb disappeared, so immediately I thought to myself, aw hell no and tried to go back to sleep. As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw a ghostly figure and woke back up and turned on the t.v. until I fell back asleep with the light on. When I told my Mom and Grandpap about it the next day, my Grandpap didn't dispute it and actually said he thinks Anna, his wife (my grandma), is roaming around. Kinda nuts huh?

Back to D.C. After the fingerprints, Sean and I met up with Hunter and our friend Kate at Lucky's. We've been there before, but tonight it was for happy hour. Best deal ever. Tacos for 50 CENTS!!! They were mini tacos, but still, nine mini tacos for $4.50!? Uh yes please!!!

The only bad part of the day was when I messed up a SmartTrip transaction yesterday. I "put" $10 on my card, only forgetting (or not knowing because it was my first time reloading my card) to retap the scanner. It looked like the money was on my card so I wasn't worried, until I go to get on the Metro today and it didn't go through. I'm going to try to get it back, because it really was a honest, learning, new kid in the new town mistake.

Tomorrow I'll meet more people at registration. It's always a good day when I meet more people. Oh and I beat the computer at Chess today. So that's one thing that Jim and my computer have in common...I've beaten each of them once! #Winning