Monday 9th June 2008
Met everyone outside the Whitehouse this morning and we walked the two blocks to the WIP office. Was a bit of an experience getting my way into the city using the metro. The metro halls are so huge and are about 10 stories underneath the city which you go down into via huge, steep escalators (thos of you with a fear of heights need not apply). In the words of Karen Walker it really is like watching hundreds of little people all rushing about on tiny little trains shooting about underneath the subway in magical tunnels. Ok...the tunnels might not be that magical but the fact its clean and the trains come every few minutes make it all quite magical compared tot he shambles of Northern Ireland Railways. Went to the Newseum in the afternoon and for the aspiring journalists in our group it was totally their little piece of heaven. It had some amazing exhibits inclusing the top of Tower one from the WTC and the views over DC from its roof are fab. Elaine even commented that you would never get a view of the whitehouse like you can fromt he top of the Newseum, which is very true considering the fact she was looking at the US Capitol.
