Jan. 13th, 2005

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So. I'm in Washington and writing from my host's 'puter. I've met a number of the people I'm going to be working for and they seem great fun. They're all about my age. The trip here took about 24 hours from the time I left my apartment to the time I arrived at the Youth Venture office. The airports in the DC area closed fown due to fog while my plane was in the air so we set down in Detroit, where there was a hotel room shortage. I asked a woman on my flight if she wanted to go 50-50 on a room and she said her company would pay for it. Much scrambling after hotel rooms ensued, since a lot of flights had been delayed to Detroit that night. We ended up in a rather mangy inn that boasted the longest hallway in Michigan (it was indeed a very long hallway). Then in the morning, "Super Express" shuttles from Detroit to Pittsburg and Pittsburg to Washington National. Super Express shuttles are airplanes so small that they only seat three on a row and the ceiling over the isle is about two inches above my head. Many of the larger men looked very uncomfortable. The whole process of the trip was more comical and annoying than stressful since I know that if I have airline flights within the US, it's their responsibility to get me there. And I met three very interesting characters, including the woman who shared her hotel room with me and a half-Assyrian shuttle driver. Nevertheless, it felt really good to arrive.

The office had an ice-skating event this evening and so the very aimiable and very physically graceful woman who is in charge of the VISTAs' (that's the group of AmeriCorps people working for Youth Venture) well-being spent quite a while trying patiently to teach klutzy me with no sense of balance to ice skate. I felt rather like a five-year old as I skated around with two people holding my hand and a look of intense concentration on my feet.

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