The First Official Day

Thursday was check-in day, and everyone else arrived in the afternoon. I was sick, so I spent the vast majority of the day sleeping, but I hear from Ian that there was a pretty good Ultimate Frisbee game out on the lawn in front of the complex. Every year there is one team that dominates the game. Last year the team was from Missouri. This year they are from Minnesota.

In the evening there was a nighttime tour of the monuments, but being sick, I opted out. I’ve been on this tour twice before though, so I can still describe exactly how it goes. A few hundred students get on buses wearing name tags and “blinkers,” which are light bulb shaped flashing pins. The buses drive to the Lincoln Memorial, everyone gets off and admires the statue, and then walks to the next feature. This is repeated, the whole group blinking like fireflies the entire time. Nearly all of the memorials in Washington D.C. are visited at some point, the most appropriate (for this particular competition) being the large statue of Einstein that everyone gets to climb all over.

Up next: roll call, security clearance, and a day on the mall.

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