Well, I’m off to Naples (to eat the best pizza of my life) and Rome (to soak up some godliness) this weekend, but before I left I wanted to just write a little message…
YAY OBAMA.
We’ve been really worried about the election over here, even though we are so far away. Everyone voted absentee…and I am glad to hear that everyone at home voted too…and for the right candidate! This is a very exciting time and, for the first time I can remember I am actually proud of Americans as a whole.
However, with good news comes bad…what is UP with California? The fact that Prop. 8 passed is absolutely disturbing to me. However, I was thinking I was going to have to move to Canada…now I just want to move to…Massachusetts? Some place where people have equal rights…I thought this was an old issue. So sad.
The U.S. needs change, being abroad has made that even more clear to me…and I am glad Barack Obama has stepped up to the plate. And that we have accepted his help.
Yay, yay, yay!
I’ll let you know how the pizza and religion goes (-;
Nikki, I followed Jessie’s blog to yours. I too am elated at Obama’s win, and sad about Prop 8. We got a letter from a neighbor we do not know, before the election, urging us to support prop 8. Soren was so upset he wrote her back to tell her he was offended because his brother, a gay man, deserves the same opportunities for happiness as anyone else. I am proud of them both.
We are well–glad to hear news of you. Julie