Over the summer, I went to Washington D.C., as a part of an internship program called The Fund for American Studies, TFAS. During my time in this program, I found myself at all times busy and relaxed.
My favorite event as a part of the program was the scholarship dinner that I got to go to. The dinner was at the Four Seasons in Georgetown, a district within the District of Columbia.
The dinner was three courses, a salad, entree and a dessert. The salad was a standard salad, with light dressings that tasted amazing. The entree was a fish that was so tender, that with the lightest pressure from my fork, I was able to mince the fish. The fish had a sauce that was amazing as well, the closest approximation of what it tasted like would be a Sriracha Mayo that was thinner.
Dessert was this chocolate cake ball that was coated with a liquid layer of chocolate. My worry with the dessert was that the outer layer of chocolate was solid, and was going to be hard to cut with a fork. I was mistaken. My fork effortlessly sliced through the desert like a knife going through a stick of warm butter.
The company that I had at my table as well was extraordinary. There were approximately eight people who sat at the table, three of them were executives at AT&T, one of the largest cellular device companies in the United States, two of the people there were fellow members of the program and the last three or so people were founders of the graphics studios that the TFAS program used in everything that they did.
All of these people that I sat with were incredibly good at conversation as well, they were nice, witty and every word that could be used to describe good conversation. Despite my years of experience in speech, I felt outclassed by their conversational skills.
It is also worth mentioning that at this event, I had the opportunity to meet senator Ted Cruz, who was one of the keynote speakers for the event. Personally, I am not a fan of him nor his works, but he’s famous so he gets a mention.
After the dinner, we received multiple speeches from prominent politicians, economists, and recipients of the awards that TFAS was giving out.
This dinner was my favorite part of the TFAS program, in one part for the free, amazing food and in another part, the amazing company that was there was really the highlight of the evening.
