The conflict between the republicans and democrats, started due to the fact that the two chambers in congress could not agree upon a legislation, to raise the debt ceiling in the United States. This was mainly because the republicans wanted to cut fundings for Obamacare, while Obama did not want to do this. So on october 1. the shutdown started and it did not end until deadline day for a decision on october 16.. This meant that every single day we were in Washington, there was government shutdown (except congress). The shutdown meant that every government runned building was closed, this for some reason also included the public parks. It actually didn't make any sense, since we were told that it cost more to have the parks closed then to have them open which is just silly. Due to the this shutdown most of the trips our teachers had planned were not possible. This really sucked because a lot of us, were actually really looking forward to seeing some of the museum we had planned to visit. The Adventurous Danes were not pleased with the situation, yet there is no doubt that we will find an adventure in Washington DC!

While we were in Washington DC there weren’t much to do, due to the shutdown, therefore The Adventurous Danes were so happy to be able to go to such an exciting place as Georgetown. The historic district Georgetown is an upscale neighborhood, which has been home to plenty of top politicians over the years, including Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy just before he moved in to the white house, even the current secretary of state John Kerry lives here. The district is beautiful, it is right next to the river and the area is filled with well kept historic places, such as the City Tavern club, which a lot of the founding fathers would visit frequently once upon a time.

Georgetown is filled with beautiful buildings all around. On the mainstreet is the style of the buildings victorian, some even dating back to the civil-war. Now a days the buildings on this street mostly serve the purpose of shopping but they have chosen to keep the buildings in the original style and just integrate the stores in the fassade. You can clearly see the contrast between the old victorian houses combined with the new modern shops. We only had to walk a few blocks away from the main street, to find the riverbank. The architecture here was completely different. The buildings were quite modern, innovative and most likely expensive to live in. It was residential apartment buildings, many of which had balconies with a view of river. Obviously this was an awfully rich neighborhood, which also meant that just like in the Meatpacking District there weren’t a whole lot of other races represented than the caucasian. We interviewed a man named Mahatma, who said, “you see it (racism red.) here because it’s a well off neighborhood, so you see less number of blacks coming here. They may come for fun but they don’t live here. (...) but if you go to a part of Washington, which is mostly inhabited by blacks, you see less whites, so it’s a reverse of what you see here. So there is a function of segregation but it’s not a legal segregation(...)” (qt. Mahatma). One of the points he was trying to make, was that Georgetown is really rich, so therefore you won’t see as many blacks, due to the low number overall number of rich black people compared to rich white people. Which was the same point, Sarah was trying to make about the Meatpacking district.The same thing happened in the Meatpacking district as here though, no one seemed to have any sort of prejudices about other races, and this must just as in NY be due to the educational level of the citizens and general tolerance in the area.