Sometimes it is so hard to believe how time flies. It just have been 2 years since I moved in to this capital city of this distant country. September 12th 2015, that’s the date when Washington DC became my home. Someone would ask… why to leave? why so far away? For these questions I will answer in another post because it is a long story. It definitely doesn’t feel like two years, sometimes I think it was just few months. Life goes forward fast but for me feels like a slow motion. As far as about the city itself I have nothing but compliments, well maybe apart of insane traffic in rush hours, fortunately that doesn’t concern me since I am walking to work top 8 minutes everyday, and of course garbage trucks. That’s the worst, had same issue in the first apartment and now in the second. First, engines in those trucks are so loud that it would wake up the dead, second, garbage guys are so loud slamming the dumpsters that sometimes I wanna stick out my head through the window and use some bad words &^$!#$*&!#***^&^%$!. What’s wrong with them! I got myself nervous. But these are just small things, besides that the city stick out among the others. It is really big with wide sidewalks, low buildings, clean streets. You can see that Americans are paying a lot of attention how the capital city looks like. City is planned from the scratch, streets layout, their names for easy location, beautiful monuments in every park that includes stunning ones that were built in memory of the Presidents, Capitol building, Arlington Cemetery and gorgeous Georgetown. All of that comes together with beautiful but short American history. All Americans are proud of that heritage and they are showing that on every step. Washington can be toured walking, which requires some good health, mostly because there is a lot of walking involved or by bike. Weather here in capital city is amazing, from March to almost end of November average temperatures are around 25 degrees Celsius. Only Summer can be tough, especially with temperatures rising above 30 degrees Celsius and humidity above 90%. Winters usually pretty warm with temperatures that rarely goes below -10 degrees Celsius. These are the winters I can survive, and who knows me, I am person that loves heat, average daily temperature in around 25 degrees Celsius and I am in paradise. Public transportation, buses and metro goes almost everywhere (just like in Krakow). There are also special buses called “Circulator” those are going from Union Station to The National Mall and Georgetown and you can ride them for a 1 dollar fare. So sightseeing the city is a real pleasure. Additional benefit is that all museums are Federal buildings and because of that they are for free. If it comes to people here, live evolves around work from Monday to Friday. Than comes the weekend, restaurants and clubs fill up, night life is evolving around Dupont Circle, U-street, 14th street areas. Thats where the most of restaurants, bars and clubs are located. Most of the people here are friendly and smiling. Somehow the way of short term work, government contracts, it is hard to meet people that are interested in getting to know each other on more personal level. Usually people have they own circle of friends and it feels like they are not interested in letting in someone new, especially an alien, foreigner. Pretty often I get lonely but that’s where FaceTime comes in handy and a small talk to my sister or grandma. Washington has three major airports in the area. Reagan just 20 minutes away from Downtown, Dulles about 40 minutes and Baltimore around 50 minutes. So if someone plans to visit me in the capital city, those are the airports you are looking flights to. Of course New York is only 5 hours away with bus or car or 3,5 hours train ride. Washington as for capital is very expensive, mostly rent for studio average in around 1700 USD a month. It is little bit compensated by salaries which are pretty high. Shopping and restaurants are also expensive, you can eat pizza cheaper in New York, as well as my favorite burgers. These two years were full of new things new experiences and gave me strength to set the bar higher and to continue making my dreams come true. That’s would be all, I got carried away with writing as for a blog post. Do you have questions? Do you wanna know more? Message me!
