TODAY @ NEA!

Oh my gosh...Today at NEA...The Good, The Bad, The Amazing... The Bad: So, I was looking for a patio to eat in the outdoors because ever since I've been living in this East Coast metropolitan area- where my windows don't open! -I've been missing the air and the sun! My west coast sun!! And my Berkeley air!! But instead of getting the patio on the 8th floor, I got the President's Office Suite!!! Where I was kindly escorted back down,down,down to the 1st floor! Then I go sit outside the cafe- "Miss, you can't sit here unless you buy something! I'll let you this time..becuase I see you are new...but no more, okay?"....Okay...What, you can't sit OUTSIDE in DC?! Hmmph... The Good: I cleaned allllll the old interns desks out (on my own volition) and found NEA yo-yo's, NEA floss!, NEA landyard, NEA business card holder (I think...), NEA election pins, stickers, etc etc! I brought a large, unopened frame to my boss and she said: "Well do you want that? You know what that is, don't you?" "No...I couldn't really see into it...What is it?" "That's a signed picture from Obama...You can have that." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The AMAZING: I went to an Open House for the NEA Foundation, a separate, but connected organization that raises and distributes money to educators across the country. This was an INCREDIBLE open house! Wine, beer, meatballs!, cheeses, crackers, fruit, etc.! I met a BUNCH of really nice, really passionate people in education, raising money for hard-working education professionals. Wow. I learned about them, their careers, their work in NEA, their journey to fighting for education rights. Wow. I met this incredibly energetic womyn that my supervisor told me to connect with, running this exciting project that gives money to schools for voting on their "favorite" issues in their schools...Wow. THEN I WON THE RAFFLE!! AFTER ENTERING MY NAME IN 5 MINUTES BEFORE THE DRAW!!! AND I WON A FLIP CAMERA?!!!!!! WOOOOOWWWWW! :D It is my 2nd Day working here!!! People joked with me that some have been working there 30 years and never won these raffles!! haha...I felt kind of guilty! But my internship coordinator said that's what I get for taking initiative and I deserve it! :b All in all, a "bad," good, and AMAZING day at NEA! :) Off to my first play for my Theatre elective class- The Vibrator Play! I've seen it once in the Bay so we'll see how DC measures up! :b LOVE TO ALL!