Amazing how emails can keep you in contact with people like the editor of Cafe Babel, an online European magazine that I became acquainted with during my semester abroad in Paris. After getting goosebumps from both McCain and Obama’s speech, I quickly jot off a couple of lines before I went to bed last night, and I attach the excerpt below, reproduced from the website itself. If you do want to share how your own night was, let me know..I had a housemate that went off to U street at midnight to join in the festivities-what a crazy night.
Washington DC
From the morning, I feel the buzz in the air as I walk past the growing line of people waiting to vote at my neighborhood’s elementary school. My office is teeming with stories being swapped of how many hours each person waited at their polling station. Every vote seems crucial, even if it is in a definite blue state like the district of Columbia. I rush back home to watch the news after work.
A little after 11:00pm – Obama wins. My housemates and I – a white American, Asian, and African-American on the couch together – shout for joy, celebrating the advent of an America that has been truly changed.
Filed under: DC, The Present
