So I’m home, back in D.C. again and living in my new row house with some great roommates and starting a new segment of my life. My house is in a sketchy part of town which I find rather amusing and adventurous. Apparently there have been some major drug busts in the area in the past few years, mostly cocaine I think. These days though the major drug of sale in the immediate blocks is just pot and you have to go a bit further down to run into the crack. This could just be rumor on the street though, I’m sure it’s, erm, perfectly safe? According to the neighbor if you make friends with the homeless dude on the street he’ll see to it that your car never gets broken into. The outside of our house and the other houses on our street are no great shakes but the inside is delightful! We have three floors and a tiny little veranda where we can get some sun and we’re about a 25-minute walk from Chinatown and probably a ten-minute walk from the Convention Center metro stop. We had a housewarming party on Saturday which was good fun and I’m still working on getting my room together. Another IKEA trip is definitely in order. My EMT program starts tomorrow night and I’m crossing my fingers that my background check will be completed in the necessary time for me to stay in the program. If I have to drop out and wait until fall to take it I’ll revert to plan B which is to look for a real job. So far the transition is going as smoothly as I could hope although I still have to do before I would consider myself “settled-in”. I’m learning how to drive in the city and have already experienced driving downtown and on the beltway during rush hour which is pretty terrifying, but teaching me that I need to be assertive to survive here. Anyway, things are definitely a lot different here now that I’m not an intern living in Capitol Hill but I still feel very at home and excited to be here.
