november fourth

4/11
It’s Election Day in the US and the whole world is paying attention. I voted absentee and was glad to see that the majority of the USAC students did the same. I didn’t really keep up with any news not having a TV and having limited internet access, so I couldn’t really tell you what was going on in Italy or in America, but this was a big enough deal that people would ask us about it, who we voted for, if we wanted Obama to win or if we liked Bush, things like that. Italians (as did everyone else) wanted Obama to win and would tell you so. It was exciting to watch the election results but annoying because they didn’t start to get results until late into the night for us. When I woke up, though, I saw the tons of headlines on the internet and noticed that Virginia had turned blue, mostly because of Fairfax County; history was made!