Obama

Five students.  1 teacher, and many smiles.  The publishing class was invited to see Barack Obama and many others speak.  The day of the event was a Friday afternoon.  We had to leave school pretty early.  So I got to school that morning at around 7:20.  I wanted to get there early so that I could grab my books.  The 6 of us all gathered in the parking lot of our school in well-dressed clothes.  We all were very excited for this event! So without further of due, we hopped in the car and got on our way. The drive was about an hour and 45 minutes.  On our way, we stopped at Dunkun Donuts and got refreshments and something to eat.  Finally we got there and it was packed. We took a shuttle that took us to the field where he was speaking.  We had to wait in line for a long time.  An hour had past and we were past the medal detectors and the security and found our places to sit for a little while.  We knew that it was going to be a wait until they started speaking so we got out our notebooks and started writing.  That was what we were there for anyway. It didn’t take as long as I expected because after writing for about 5 minutes, they started talking and we all stood up. A few people that I didn’t know started talking about their experience of voting the past year for Obama and how they think that everyone should vote for Obama.  Then one more person talked about kind of the same thing, then he finished his speech.  There was a very long wait until the next speech so we sat down and wrote some more.  I looked up and saw everyone start standing up again so I followed everyone’s lead.  All of a sudden a man came up and introduced Joe Biden! He came running onto the stage!!!   He seemed like a very nice man.  He talked for about 15 minutes then said,” Now I’m about to introduce a man who is very similar to the man that they’re going to bring to the stage.”  I knew that that meant something good was about to happen; so I got out my friend’s video camera and started videoing.  I was so happy that the camera started shaking and I started sweating even more!  Finally, as the music came on, Joe said, “NOW INTRODUCING… GOVERNOR, JOHN LYNCH!” Even though I had already seen him a lot and met him in person 3 times, it still made me excited and I still yelled and screamed very loudly.  John Lynch talking for about the same amount of time.  I didn’t see it coming but all of a sudden, he repeated Joe Biden by saying,” NOW, INTORUCING… THE MAN YOU ALL CAME HERE TO SEE… YOUR PRESIDENT, BARACK, OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”  You wont even believe how loud it got!! I screamed louder than I have ever screamed before. I couldn’t even believe that I was so close to the president of the United States!  I took so many videos of his various speeches that I think I finished all of my friend’s memory on her camera.  During one of his speeches I could have sworn that he looked right at me.  So I waved at him and he smiled and gave me a little nod.  I felt shivers go down my back. I was also a little surprised that I understood what he was talking about.  I was very interested about what he had to say.  It made me really want to vote for him even though I’m not old enough.  After the whole speech Joe Biden, John Lynch, and Michelle Obama and Jill Biden walked out and got pictures taken.  We went out and stood in line for the shuttles.  3 hours past and the busses had finally come and we got in our car and drove.  We stopped for ice cream and the small was 7 SCOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We got home and it was the best day ever!! But the bummer was that I couldn’t make it to my FH game and they lostL but we have plenty other games to make and not plenty times to see Obama J