1) I've never lived by myself before and I hate being away from people
2) Making new friends.
I'm lucky to have an amazing group of friends back home in Ann Arbor. Spending so much time with people day after day really makes it seem like your friends become your family. So leaving them behind, with no one from my core group of friends in D.C., was really tough for me. My first couple of weeks in D.C. were actually pretty awful because I didn't know anyone here, and I hate being lonely. Luckily, I had Dustin and Charlie, who are two of my co-workers. They happen to live together in a house about a block away from our office, and they have 9 other roommates. And thankfully, I've become an honorary roommate and I actually have friends now. And I'm dedicating this blog to them :)
So I guess the D.C. Fam is comprised of the following people: me, Dustin, Charlie, Shveta, Mitchell and Matthew. Dustin, Charlie and I are all from Michigan, but from very different parts...and they got to State (BOO! :P) Shway (that's what we call her) and Mitchell are both from North Carolina and Matthew is from Alabama. Shway goes to UNC and Mitchell and Matthew both go to Alabama. So basically we're the most random group of people, all with different political affiliations, backgrounds, majors, etc, and somehow we've found ourselves a bit obsessed with each other.
Ever since we've "found" each other, we've pretty much spent every weekend together, roaming around the city and seeing every cool thing that's here. And thank god for that. I don't know what I would do without them. Interestingly enough, I'm the person who everyone makes fun of in this group too...crazy right? People making fun of me, I guess I just have "go ahead and make fun of me" written all over my face. But whatever, I kind of like it :P
I wish I could do a full blown explanation of everyone but that would take forever, so I'm just going to do one sentence descriptions of them:
Dustin- the most ADD person I've ever met, he seriously can't pay attention for more than like 90 minutes or something, and he is OBSESSED with MSU. like legit. he knows EVERYTHING about that school and its campus.
Charlie- I think Charles might be the male version of me. We both love politics and hate Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin (with dire passions)...and we're pros at annoying the hell out of each other. basically, we're made for each other.
Shway- She might be my long-lost twin. Of course the only two girls in our group are both Indian, but by some weird coincidence, we're like the same person. We both want to get MPH-JDs at Emory of all places and the guys get really weirded out when we connect over our love for Taco Bell hot sauce.
Mitchell- The nicest, most polite boy I have ever met. Period. He works for a Democrat (he's a Republican), and when I asked him how he's able to work with a Dem., he responded with, "Well, they have good intentions.." Now come on, how many politically active people are THAT polite???
Matthew- "I'm Matthew. You can't hate me because I have an accent." He is basically my favorite person. We're writing a book together, "In Spite of Charlie," look for it in bookstores next year.
This is the crew with whom I've done everything this Summer. The Newseum, baseball games, random trips to the playground, and the random Wednesday night drunkfest/kings game. Kind of reminds me of home :)
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