UNCERTAINTY

My first week in Washington D.C has felt longer than a week, but not in a bad way, it is just that a lot has happened in this first week. I traveled completely by myself to a city I have never been, nobody was on the airport waiting for me, and I arrived at my future home for the summer without any sense of direction to live with people that I did not know. However, besides finally meeting my roommates, go to work at Democracy Initiative, and setting foot in the big city, I feel like I have already learned so much. From bringing my own bags to the supermarket so I don’t have to pay to learn how the subway works. Living here in the Hill gives me a sense of power, possibilities, and responsibility. Plus the things I have learned have provoked me to think how do I relate my faith to justice? Why things that are supposed to be wrong are right? What is my purpose here? What is my calling in life? I know there are big questions and it does not help that in the job I feel like the people around me know what they are doing and I don’t, but I know everything is going to be alright. All that I am feeling is normal. I have to admit it I love how in the city everything is so fast paced but it seems I haven’t been able to catch up to its rhythm. There are so many questions in my head I don’t have answers for, but while I experienced this summer I know my life will get enriched by the people that surround me, the places I will visit and the moment that I will live. There is so much to come this summer that I do not know how it is going to go, but slowly but surely I am getting to example more and more what it is to come.

Raquel Resendiz

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6/082018