Shoosh, I'm so happy you made it to Armenia. It was your time! Raffi M, we're next.

The ANCA interns returned home today. Another chapter closed, another summer experience ended. What next for the fresh new activists? Who knows, but after dozens of congressional meetings, conferences, lectures, research, projects, etc., I'd like to think they are that much more prepared to become leaders. The office will be quiet tomorrow morning. There were certainly quite a few characters that will be missed, some of whom I wish we could clone. All in all, I'm proud.

Where one experience ends, another must begin. We have another group coming in this weekend. Four new graduates are coming to find work in Washington, and my job is to help them find it. So far, the wheels are in motion and great things are ahead. That much I can sense.

Sometimes it's hard to truly grasp your surroundings and the people around you when you are so emerced in the middle of it all. I try to imagine sometimes what the me from a year ago would think of myself now. There are so many things I wish I did differently, did better. But overall, it was good.