Weekend update!

Where to begin?
Let me just start by saying I am typing this using five beautiful bars of internet. I don't think I fully explained before, but there had been a little internet... delay? Summed up, Comcast is a company run by a bunch of idiots. Well, okay, maybe I should give them the intellectual benefit of a doubt. They just don't give a flying hoot about they're customers. Basically, for 2 months Yola + Daniel have been calling them countless of times trying to get internet installed. Once we got here and we still didn't have internet, It became a daily routine. "Hey did you call Comcast today?" "Yeah I really gave it to them." "That's my boy!" The meaner Daniel was on the phone, the happier I became, I was beginning to turn into someone I wasn't familiar with, but I liked it. FINALLY, Friday between 5-8, low and behold our homie from Comcast shows up (In the rain!!) to install our beautiful cable and internet. Wow, just. Wow.
Next agenda item: I GOT A JOB! :) :) :)
It is at an adorable little coffee shop in Georgetown called Saxby's. It's a really residential area full of young couples and students. The best part is, she hired me knowing I was only here for the summer- I didn't even have to lie! How wonderful. Anyway, I start Friday!
Work is going really well. I only went in on Tuesday and Wednesday because Monday was a holiday. What I'm working on now is (I don't think I explained this before? Well here is is again!) an annual conference called The Freedom Network. Basically, the FN consists of workshops and panel discussions by social workers, legal aids, activists, government officials, etc. that all promote awareness and aim to end human trafficking. It's really cool and Qimmah wants to make it happen in DC next year! Sooo I'm kind of helping her out looking for venues, & researching ballpark prices. It's all in the beginning stages and we're not even sure it will able to happen financially, but it would be cool if it did.
So I guess here would be appropriate to talk about yesterday. Okay well, as most of you know, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is really rather close to DC. Well, after everyone raved about the super cheap bus line that takes you from the heart of DC to the heart of Philly and New York, we decided to take a day off and go. Everything went really well in the morning, I slept on the bus, we got to see the bell and Independence Hall where the constitution and Declaration of Independence were drafted, and the first Senate and court houses and such, very neat stuff. Then, guided by our lovely friend from school Alex Ariff (thank you thank you alex.) who suggested a bunch of really neat stuff (South Street, Philly cheesesteaks, Penn's Landing..), we wandered the city by foot, met some awesome people and overall had a good time. I have to say, going into the trip, I was hesitant. Philadelphia-ehh. But by the time it was to leave, I had found a special appreciation for the city of brotherly love.
That was until- we got to Chinatown to catch our bus home. It was run by a "company" in Chinatown that pretty much takes you from Chinatowns to Chinatowns all up and down the coast (NY, DC, they stop in Baltimore, Jersey, ect.). So our bus is supposed to leave at 6:30, and Daniel and I get there at 6/6:15, only to find out that our bus is stuck in traffic in DC and wont be there for another 2 hours. Okay, so we're exhausted. What the heck do we do now? We sit around, people are angry and getting refunds all over the place, but we don't really have to be home by any certain time so we (after checking the prices and times for the greyhound across the street) decide the best thing to do is just wait. So we talk to the guy and we ask him if it would be okay to leave our number with him and just wander the city for an hour or so and if the bus came sooner, then to call. "sure! no problem." You guys know where this story is going.. So Daniel walk a few blocks downtown and wander around. I eventually get into a fight with some street organizers who call me the devil because my skin is white. After about 20 minutes of Daniel reasoning with some crazy follower on the street and me quoting Gandhi and referencing MLK, we left and continued our journey. The full story can not be justified on this blog. So we walked around and eventually decided it time to head back to Chinatown and just wait for the bus there. We get to the place around 8, walk into the "office" and discovered absolutely no one there. Freaking out after about 5 minutes of calling for anyone in the office, we walk outside and recognize someone from the company coming home with groceries. So we run up and ask about the bus, and he was like "Oh DC bus leave 30 minutes ago." I was like, "You said 2 hours!!!!" and Daniel's like "We left our number with you to call us if it came earlier!!!!" and he's pretty much like "Oh. Sorry." So we go into the "office" and try and reason with him telling him the company needs to pay for our greyhound back and he claims he doesn't have the authority to do that we have to call the main office in NY, blah blah blah so we're like, give us our damn refund. And we left.
So we get to the greyhound station and the bus to DC leaves at 10. Needless to say, we didn't get home until 1:30 last night.
Philadelphia, I really tried to like you. You had the whole bell thing going on, even though I thought it was kind of cheesy, I appreciated you. I gave you a chance. Then, you give me black supremacists, a faulty bus system (twice), and did I mention we couldn't find an ice cream shop for like 30 minutes? Maybe someday, you and I will meet again, but for now I think the best thing we can do is just have some time apart to breathe.
Other than that. Steph and Kirsten came to visit on Sunday and we had fun. I was so nice seeing Steph again before she left for eternity summer camp.
Plans today include CHILLIN, enjoying the beautiful DC day. Weather has been amazing lately. Very, very rainy but it's nice sometimes.
Anyway, can't think of anything else and this post is crazy long so I'll end it. Maybe I'll update some pictures tonight. I'm well over due.
Love to everyone.