Week 9
One of my favorite things about living in the Washington, D.C. area is going to a Nationals baseball game. During the ninth week of my internship with the NCSC, Jeff Apperson, the Vice President of the International Programs Group, was kind enough to invite the entire office, including the summer interns, to a game at the Nationals Park versus the Los Angeles Padres. Tuesday after work, everyone from the office took the D.C. Metro from Court House stop, in Arlington Virginia, to Navy Yard-Ballpark stop in D.C., and made our way to our seats. One thing I love about gatherings like these is the opportunity to get to know people whom you may not interact with often in the office, or otherwise only interact with in a professional setting. In addition to sitting next to Sarah Conley (whom I look forward to working with on the Environmental Law and Policy Review this year), I also was next to Manuel Reyes, a Program Associate focused on Latin America. I learned much talking to him, for example, that baseball is quite popular in Cuba. Another stand-out experience from the game was getting to explain the rules of baseball to the NCSC’s intern from Vietnam, who was not familiar with the way the sport is played. I realized as I was explaining that the sport has far more rules than I realized; nearly every rule must be followed by a “unless this happens, in which case” because of all the little intricacies. Manuel pointed out that Baseball is his favorite sport because it’s one of the only ones where the team with possession of the ball is actually on the defense, instead of trying to score; I had never thought about the sport that way before.
Week 8 was a productive week as well; I made significant progress on drafting the anticipated learning outcomes of the Moldovan Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing course, I performed Moldova consultant contract revision, and began working on my section of a presentation on the ICC’s cases against war criminals, one of two presentations I would be responsible for in week ten.