Aside from the dawn ‘til dusk community service we did for most of the trip, we also found time to bond not only with the city of Washington D.C., but also with each other! We traveled to what seemed to be millions of museums, including the National Archives, two of the Smithsonian Museums and the Spy Museum, and we visited perhaps a million more monuments, including favorites such as the Lincoln Memorial, the FDR Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the newly raised Martin Luther King Memorial.
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We also traveled to Senator Lautenberg’s office and spoke to his representative about our trip, and also visited the Rutgers Federal office and spoke to the representatives who fight for our financial aid and tuition sustainability year ‘round (write them and tell them THANK YOU!).
We also set RUASB history with the ASB group from Virginia by meeting up on the trip on our last night! Turns out that half of each group knew the other half, and by the end of our meet-up, we pretty much all knew each other after a couple of introductions and laughs.
It really is extremely hard to try to summarize every task, every person, every reflection, every inside joke, and every moment we shared with each other. The amount of knowledge we took from Washington D.C. isn’t something that can be entirely summarized by words. Which is why myself and my fellow RUASBDC’ers (Rutgers University Alternative Spring Break D.C. -- say that a couple of times really fast!), our site leaders Jacob and Henah, and our awesome Staff Partner Matt Ferguson (better known as “Mattstache”) will all take what we have learned and not only apply it to the Rutgers and New Brunswick communities, but also take it with us wherever life may end up leading us, which is something we all are definitely and infinitely grateful for.
- Christina Kelly & Nikita Patel
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