election week

so this week started with the presidential race...will it be Obama vs. McCain. Monday was rather uneventful and quiet like normal. Tuesday was a buzz since everyone was excited to vote and elect our 44th President. Tuesday after work we all went back to the dorm and around 7 started collecting in the Day Room (common room). Once the results started coming in there would be wild cheers each time votes were called for Obama. There was a group of six people all wearing red sitting at a desk raging in the back sitting at a desk with two computers on it. Wednesday was wild and full of excitement. Everywhere we went people were excited for the new president. Walking to school in the morning past the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) had already taken down all McCain-Palin signs except the massive one over their doors. It was wild. Our assignment for English class from Tuesday was to write a column (min. 250 words) about the election. I'll post what I wrote next. Since they let us stay up late Tuesday night to hear his acceptance speech we didn't have school until 8:30 the next morning. My math and psychology teachers met us at the dorm to take us via the metro to Arlington National Cemetery. We watched the changing of the guard and visited JFK's grave site. Then we headed back to work. At work Erin and I read the NYTimes for the day and was shocked at how many grammatical errors there were in the lead story about Obama. When we got to english class on Thursday Mr. Wilwol my english teacher had a quote from Thomas Friedman's op-ed on the board. It read: "And so it came to pass that on Nov. 4, 2008, shortly after 11 p.m. Eastern time, the American Civil War ended, as a black man — Barack Hussein Obama — won enough electoral votes to become president of the United States." (NYTimes. November 4). We spent english class discussing our columns and what we all thought about this election.