life in the district

Well, I pretty much suck at posting... so here's a quick wrap up until I can get my computer fixed.

Last Thursday, I went out with the lobbyist from my internship to the Capitol Hill club. I'm not sure I've ever felt so out of my league... heh. It's the club across from all of the House building where Congress Representatives hang out after work. It's the behind the scenes part of DC. Lobbyists basically shmooze all night with them and pay for everything, while the Members and their staff enjoy the "rich" feel. While it was fun to meet staffers and some members, I don't know if I could ever live that life. It's too superficial. Everything is about who you know and how much money you have. I know these people do get important things done, but the other stuff that comes along with it seems a bit ridiculous and meaningless.

On Friday, after sleeping in, I wandered over to the Botanical Gardens again, which screams of God's creativity and beauty. The newest Smithsonian, the Native American Museum, showed the diversity of the Native American people that spread from Alaska to Chile. Their beliefs about the Mother Earth are so prevelant in their culture that it was an incredible religiously based museum. There was the thread of truth in all that they believed, yet something strangely missing. They never wasted anything that they used, whether it was an animal they killed or a tree they cut done. Americans today could learn from their way of life.