Washington DC Day 1

After an 8 hour train ride I finally arrived at Union Station in DC. My hostel was just a 10 minute walk away!
The hostel had a great location in Capitol Hill, a beautiful neighbourhood with lots of brickstone architecture. After checking in I walked over to the Capitol and continued my walk along the Monument Mall all the way to the Lincoln Memorial. It's a beautiful center but you can cover the main sites in about 2 to 3 hours. Because I was to lazy to walk back I used Uber. The driver was a super nice Afroamerican guy and we even talked about Manila and the Philippines because he has been there several times.
After getting myself some dinner(yummy beef teriyaki!) which I ate at the hostel I got to know the people staying in the hostel better. There where more Europeans than Americans there! A few German girls, girls from the Netherlands, a couple from Slovakia and a French couple! Everybody was really nice! I loved the hostel! It's very clean and not very big, so everybody is very easygoing. The hostel offers several events during the day as well as at night, e.g. a pub crawl or taco night.