Soooo, I'm going to try to keep this short and sweet. Today was our first all day ethics and leadership class. We had to get all dressed up because we were going out on the town. Our first stop of the day was the academic meeting for a session with 2 joint staff members, Lt. Colonel DeMartino and Major Hanson. They discussed leadership in the military -- their panel gave me a whole new outlook on the military and made me almost want to enlist. After that we walked to American Enterprise Institution, a giant think tank in DC. There we sat in on a panel of experts discussing the crisis in Haiti, but first, Ambassador Raymond Joseph of Haiti spoke. ANDDDD this panel was shown on C-Span aka I WAS ON TV!!
After that we split up into 2 groups. Half of us went to the UN Foundation, while the other half of us went to Brookings Institute, the largest think tank in DC. I went to Brookings. There, we met with 2 people about internally displaced people, but specifically in Haiti. This week is obviously centered on Haiti because it is our first case study.
The day was over and we headed back to the residential for a debriefing of the day from Noah. We also discussed proper etiquette for these meetings. Then we had dinner which was chicken, rice pilaf, and brocoli.
Later, we went and walked around the Capitol to see if we could spot anyone important because everyone is in town for the State of the Union Address. The metro and DC in general were super crowded today!
Is this short enough Izzie? :-P
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