So, last Friday was the night the much anticipated Euro Night, held at the French Embassy. It was a lot of fun but also extremely busy, it was so much work refilling food and saying "it's a shrimp and salmon salsa with cucumber and vodka sauce on top" (no, we didn't come up with that, the ambassador's chef did) to hundreds of people, that I didn't have time at all to actually walk around and try out food myself (except some salami and kebab from Germany, they were close and I was hungry). Adding to that it was a complete horror to wear that thick-layered folk costume in a very warm room, thought I would drown in sweat. See another photo and a blog post about the Swedish representation here.
On Saturday it was time for the first House of Sweden event up on our super cool rooftop. Swedish hiphop star Adam Tensta performed and I had a lot of fun during the last hour, when I finally got to leave my position by the door, ticking off guests. It is fun though to have such a varied intern position, suddenly I was doing nightclub work. More info and photos (not of me though) here.
Today I finally got to go to one of the many seminars that are organized in DC. Some of the other interns go on those all the time and write reports, but as a culture/press intern it is not really my task. I signed up for this one out of interest, and I'm glad I did so. The key speaker was the President of the Czech Republic, who has quite controversial views on certain things. I still get a bit starstruck around here; it felt exactly like a normal university lecture and the auditorium was quite small, so it was hard to fathom that I was sitting just metres away from the President. The seminar was about change and prosperity in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism, obviously a very interesting topic even though I didn't agree with some of the speakers' views.
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