Saturday, January 29, 2011

Typical Day

A typical day in Richmond goes something like this:
Wake up around 6:45
Go to breakfast (most people go to Starbucks for coffee) and then the Capitol (our page room is actually in the General Assembly Building but we say Capitol anyways)
We go to the Page room, we have to be there by 8:15 and then around 8:15 we have roll call. Basically during roll call our supervisors make sure we don't have any dust on our blazers and we look presentable.
Then we wait to either be assigned a job, or we report to the jobs that were on our schedule. For example, if I have to work the third floor reception desk at 2:30, I'll wait in the Page room, run errands, eat lunch and then go do my job. People also have floor duty, which is where we sit in the Senate Chamber while the Senators are in session, and we'll get them lunch and run errands for them
At 5 we go back to the hotel.
From 5-7 we have dinner. Most people go to Wendy's because it's fast and cheap, but we also go the Trevis which is the restaurant in the hotel, Kobe's a japanese steak house, or Pe King's which is a Chinese restaurant.
7-9 is study hall. We have tutors and we're allowed to use our computers (that rhymed!) and we're responsible for getting our work done.
9-10:30 we can hang out in the meeting room, which is basically a hotel room with snacks that are all 25 cents, and everyone can just chill out. Boys and girls can be in the meeting room at the same time, and our house parents check on us often.
At 10:30 we have to be in our rooms, our house parents tape our doors so they'll know if we snuck out, and we can pretty much go to bed whenever we want.

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