OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA!

The Election Night last week was very important to me. I even skipped out of my Sororities New Member Meeting to sit in my dorm's lounge and watch the news coverage of it all night long. We were watching CNN news, as well as the Colbert Report. It was a good mix of comedy and news to the point where I was actually entertained. I was in contact with my family and friends every hour, first being scared by McCain's lead, and secondly being ecstatic by Obama's. It was the first time I had watched any kind of news and political campaign coverage in quite some time. I felt proud when Obama won, we all went crazy, jumping up and down and hugging each other. We all were proud that our generation's votes had changed our Country. That we had finally made a difference. It was one of the most amazing feelings I have ever had. Thinking back to all my friends working on the Obama Campaign back in Astoria, writing newspaper articles for my high school's Astor Post, and my mother working for his campaign as well, calling people at their homes to tell them to vote for Barack. Everyone in this country was ready for a change, ready for all our hopes to begin to come true. All night long, everywhere you looked there was something about Obama. People's Facebook status's had quotes, videos were being posted from my friends across the country like in Boston where kids were rapping on the streets and doing conga lines. Every website had a headline saying congratulations to our future president. It was astounding. I will never forget it.

This election and this class has made me realize that I need to stay in touch with the news, with my country, and with it's people. Today I subscribed to TIME magazine, and each month when I get it, I am promising myself that I will sit down and read it from beginning to end.

It's time for a change.

:)