All About G » Inauguration 2009 http://www.allaboutgina.com This is Gina's blog. 'Nuff said. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:23:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Road to the White House http://www.allaboutgina.com/2009/01/22/the-road-to-the-white-house/ http://www.allaboutgina.com/2009/01/22/the-road-to-the-white-house/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:05:06 +0000 G http://www.allaboutgina.com/?p=394 Just watch…

]]> http://www.allaboutgina.com/2009/01/22/the-road-to-the-white-house/feed/ 1 No Day But Today http://www.allaboutgina.com/2009/01/20/no-day-but-today/ http://www.allaboutgina.com/2009/01/20/no-day-but-today/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:47:16 +0000 G http://www.allaboutgina.com/?p=385 Today, I watched, with a few hundred other students packed into that room. I watched as history was made. We got loud when Vice-President Biden was sworn in, and we jumped to our feet and got even louder as President Obama was sworn in as well. And it felt like, once I had returned from class to the huge crowd in something over at least 100 that had gathered only half an hour after I left what was a nearly empty room, that the whole world was watching and cheering along with us.

I don’t know what it was — the electrical excitement in the room, the fact that I was witnessing something I had helped to bring about by voting, the fact the everyone around me was expressing such raw emotion over this — but it just seemed magical in a strange way. Call me childish, but being in that room with all of my fellow students, jumping and screaming and cheering for Obama, made it feel like I was at DC, at the Inauguration, being a part of it all too.

In the span of two hours, I watched history being made. Martin Luther King Jr. must have been smiling down at us. It was fitting that the swearing in of our first African-American president was the day after we remembered MLK’s legacy.

And the whole time I was thinking to myself: I voted and helped bring him to this day. And now, Obama will help us get back on our feet as a nation and move forward.

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I’m looking forward to tomorrow.

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