This really is the last stretch

Well this is it I guess. This really is the last stretch. Classes have now finished, as has my internship.

It was sad thinking that this was my last week at my internship. It has been my life for four months now and I have loved having my little routine from Monday to Thursday. I am certainly going to miss working there. I have had the most fabulous experience working there and have learnt so much! I have also loved working with my boss and couldn't have worked for a more lovely and brilliant person - it has been fantastic!

It was also strange having our last day of classes, but it was a fabulous end with us all going out for lunch - talking about our experiences and also getting to probe Amos for the first time!

I have to say I cannot believe how quickly these last four months have gone - everything has flown by at an incredible rate.

I have absolutely loved being a student at GW, working at Smithsonian Magazine and living in DC. Not to sound too cliched but it really has been one of the best experiences of my life. I have learnt new things about Journalism, but also about myself. It has also helped me figure out where I will be heading next. This experience has certainly changed me a lot!

I cannot believe how much I have done, the people I have met, the places I have seen. I could not have even begun to imagine it when I stepped off the plane at Dulles Airport in January.

I want to thank Amos for everything - he has done such an amazing job and has made this experience one that I am unlikely to forget. I have seriously had 'the time of my life'.

P.S. Have been wearing the sweat-shirt I received from the program non-stop, despite the merry chants of "GW" on Friday night as students walked passed me and the water bottle has been in constant use since the weather warmed up!

Cheers! Natalia