Yay Obama!

Ok, so what I forgot to mention in my previous post was that I was going to watch the election results on "Armed Forces Network" TV at my Country Director's house. This is about 10 or 11 channels that apparently the military gets along with foreign service officers, embassies, and apparently - Peace Corps staff. The "news channel" kept changing from ABC to NBC, FOX, CNN, etc every half hour or so, but the general coverage was of the election (though we did have a half hour of "around the military" news right as the first set of polls closed at 11pm Guinean time). We watched there until about 1am, which was around when we found out that PA went to Obama. After this we went back to the volunteer house to let our Director and his wife get some sleep. I listened with some other volutneers to the hissing SW radio to try to get more results, but around 2am, I decided to go to bed.


I woke up this morning to the news that he is our new President-Elect. Exciting stuff. I will leave you with a quote from his speech at the DNC....


"...Because the future of our nation depends on the soldier at Fort Carson, but it also depends on the teacher in East LA, the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans, the Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and the Foreign Service officer in Indonesia....and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy...."

Too bad I'll be done with Peace Corps by 2011, though if I do a 3rd year extension....hmmm.....