We were not eased gently into travelling and it took 5 hours to reach our first destination. My first impression of the city was not what I expected. It could be compared to an American going to visit London, expecting Buckingham Palace, the streets to be paved with gold and then being dumped in Hackney. This maybe an unfair comparison but this is how it seemed. I had visions of white picket fences and mini mansions due to the city’s title of the country’s capital. Benji gave us a brief overview stating that Washington was a predominantly poor black community and looking out the bus windows this is what we saw, slightly ironic seeing as the countries most powerful men lived just down the road. Many homes and shops looked run down and the area looked
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