Wow. I'm tired. Yesterday room check wasn't until 2 in the morning, so we all had to stay up until then. Then we had to wake up at about 5:30 this morning to get ready to leave at 6. So yesterday I only got about 3 hours of sleep. I think it's gonna be like that every day. Oh well.
Today (after our early bus ride with a bad boxed breakfast) we went to the University of Maryland to see Former Secretary of State Colin Powell speak to all of the Presidential Conferences. In just the JrPYIC there are three thousand kids, and in all of the conferences, there are about fifteen thousand, all of which were in this one building listening to General Powell. He spoke to us about what it takes to be a leader, such as you need a vision to start off with, a goal that you can work towards; and how to be a leader you need good followers. He told us about several of his wartime experiences, and how he climbed the ranks of the army to become a General. I really learned a lot from General Powell. Thinking about it later on, I could really understand how his lessons could be applied to being a general. Of course, they aren't only military; those same ideas can be applied to many other leadership positions.
After that we went to different rooms with our groups to discuss leadership and what General Powell said. Then we were going to go to the Inaugural Concert at the National Mall, but it was going to be too cold, so we skipped it. This may have been the single most disappointing experience on the trip (the other big let-down was the inauguration - but that's in a later entry). We watched it on TV here at the 4H and it turned out to be about 37 degrees. It was pretty disappointing. So we hung around here until 5, then we went to Magianno's, an Italian restaurant, for dinner. Then we came back and now we get to start the whole thing over again!
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