Yep, We're Newbies

Day 1 on Capitol Hill began an hour later than usual, at 10 am, which gave me time to work out some nerves at our gorgeous fitness center downstairs. We got into Hart Senate Building with relatively little trouble before meeting the other interns, who are fantastic. We have divisions between White Sox, Cardinals, and Cubs fans within the office but they've managed to stay together thus far, and I imagine the introduction of one more Cardinals fan won't destroy the balance. 

We started the day with badges and then a scavenger hunt. The ten of us were told to work in pairs but instead we worked as one big group, which allowed us all to get the chance to know each other a bit better as we wandered in the tunnels between the Library of Congress, the Capitol, the House office buildings, and the Senate office buildings. By the end we knew... a few things about where to go. We also had a tasty lunch in the House cafeteria, so that was good. The afternoon was spent doing general training activities, including phones, tours, carrying mail between the Hart office and the Capitol (Whip) office, and generally seeing how it all works on a day to day level. One of the interns had her parents in town and took me to dinner afterwards, which was great as well. I think I'm going to really like this place :-)