plastic bags are the new enemy

The funny thing is that while I say that I live in the midwest, this blog will really live out its infancy on the east coast - specifically, Washington, D.C.! I have an internship out here for the summer. Yay!

Until recently, I had settled with my plan of living in my college town and working over the summer. ...until I got an offer out here and my plans changed literally overnight. In a scarily fast amount of time, I found a place to live in D.C., bought my plane tickets, subletted my apartment at school and bought new work clothes. My efficiency with getting all my stuff together pretty much reaffirmed how much I wanted to live in D.C. this summer.

I just moved in yesterday so I'm still getting myself situated.

 

In my humble opinion, D.C. is like New York City but cleaner. In my area, there is seriously no trash littering the streets, and there are SO MANY FLOWERS AND TREES. I am quite happily surprised.

Some of these photos were taken as I decided to walk two miles to a more affordable grocery store. Let me preface this by saying that I get annoyingly overconfident when I'm in a new city. I'm all like "Pssh, I have the Google Maps app and good shoes, I'll be fine." I ended up buying way more groceries than I intended and walked out with no less than SEVEN huge plastic bags. It was as much of a disaster as you can imagine. I eventually dejectedly sat down on a bench with my broken bags. A man with a baby gave me some paper bags out of pity. Then I hailed a cab. I learned my lesson there.

Regardless of that snafu, I already love this place. First day of internship = success. And D.C. is so beautiful.