Yesterday was the presidential inauguration. Although I wanted to watch I wasn’t really able to. I had my chemistry lecture at ten and then I had my math class at eleven until a quarter after twelve and since the inauguration was scheduled for eleven I ended up missing it. Once I got back to my room after class I did watch ABC for a while and I saw the presidential luncheon where both Barack Obama and Biden gave speeches so I was happy I got to see that. I also watched the parade and I was shocked by how many of thousands of people were there to see Obama. I also saw that he had family there that flew in all the way from Africa in order to see him and I thought that was pretty cool.
Later on in the day, I ended up watching Obama’s speech on YouTube. I thought that he did a good job and that he is a very good public speaker. He made a lot of promises and he gave lots of ideas on how he plans to fix our economy and improve our country and I hope that he is able to do so. I’m glad to see that he is now our president and I am proud that I ended up voting for him since he has now made history. Most people I talked to also seemed to proud that Obama is now our president and they feel that he is capable of being a good president. Later on at night I was flipping through the channels and I watched the news for a little while and I watched part of the Inauguration balls. I was surprised to hear that there were ten different balls that the president had to go to. There were tons of activities throughout the day that Obama and his wife had to attend.
Throughout the day I was surprised to see how many people actually did watch the inauguration and all of the news coverage that occurred. It was on in all of the TVs in the lounges and the dining center and most people seemed to be genuinely interested in what was going on. I am glad to see that that happened since Obama being elected as president made such a large impact in the world and since it will go down in history. I was glad that I was able to witness this part of history.