Born-again American

There are a thousand thoughts running through my head right now... I am and have been in a euphoric mood for the past 12 hours. The reason is of course; Barack Obama, winning in a historic, land-slide victory, will now be the 44th president of the United States of America. It started out senior year of high school, two years into Bush's second term, when I asked my college writing teacher Mrs. Oliphant who she wanted to be president in '08. She told me of the young, black, inspirational, yet new-to-the-scene Barack Obama. Over one year later, after watching Barack's honorable and intelegent fight against Hillary, I was hooked. I've never logged onto msnbc.com/cnn.com so many times within the span of a few months. The race between Obama and McCain started a whole new round of excitement for me.. and the rest of the world. The economy crumbled, debates roared, negative adds poured onto television, hatred within the campaigns (especially on the right) became public, but, through all that, Obama stood strong, confident, and real.
Today I woke up at 7:55 am (2:00 west coast time) to watch election day on Australian television. I skipped part of my materials class to run to the uni-bar and watch the election happen on the big screen. As I walk in, about 15 Aussies were sitting down with a huge dry-erase board tracking the latest voter turnouts. I thought that was cool for them to even give a shit about the US election. But I was soon told that "when the US sneezes, OZ gets a cold." (think about it) I bought a scooner of extra dry (aussie beer) and sat down at a table with a print out of the times the polls close for each state. At that time obama already had about 204 electoral votes to McCain's 146. More American students trickeled into the bar and sat down with me. We bought more pitchers and within an hour of nervous excitement, Obama-284 popped up on the screen with a statement "Barack Obama President Elect of the United States." We, and the rest of the crowed 'freaked'. Shedding many tears, hugs, hollers, and fuck yahs, we celebrated the newfound victory of our 44th President Barack Obama. After watching McCain's consession speech, Obama finaly aproached his stage in Chicago facing hundreds of thousands of his people. [Really quickly: I want to point out that McCain is a good man, however the fact that he chose to hold his election night party at a spa, with special invited donor guests only, compared to Barack's open-to-the-public "woodstock" style election night party just shows how different the two parties are; and shows how Barack Obama is willing to reach out to people.] After giving one of the most important and inspirational speech of his career yet, Barack waved good night and we cheered more.
Since Barack's victory, I've never felt soo frekin happy about being an American outside of the country. I hope that the world will look at Americans in a new light, worlds relations will grow stronger, impressions of Americans will grow better, and that of course, our country will take this opportunity to work hard and do only good; all for the advancement of world peace, cleanliness, and harmony. If you oppose Barack Obama, that's okay I guess. But be mature and open-minded about the issue.
Anyways, tomorrow I leave for Brisbane to spend a week on the beaches of Noosa, Australia before finals start. I'm grateful to be doing what I love (traveling), and wish all of my friends back at home were with me to celebrate Barack Obama and my wonderful journey through Oz. For all the friends I've met here in Australia, I love you all, and because the time we have with eachother is shrinking, lets rage the last one or two months we have together. Also, let us meet up multiple times in the future until we grow old and die. That goes for everyone. As for now, I hope my Noosa trip brings much spontaneous excitment and craziness as the previous treks have....... Thanks for reading this far if you have... and I'll leave you with a little joke ha....
Q: What does sex, a sheep, and a mother alll have in common?
A: OHHH! BAHHHHH.. MAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!