Anyone who knows the slightest thing about me knows that I am
absolutely in love with our president and have been since I met him
back in 05. And before coming out here I had heard that world wide,
most people had close to the same mentality that I have. But I think
it's definitely on a whole another level to experience it.
One of the happiest yet most vexing day so far in this trip was
inauguration day. Reasons for happiness are obvious, vexing because I wasn't there in person. However to make up for being away from home on such a day a group of individuals decided to hold an inaug party. We gathered up the troops to watch to only find that there was only a few spots available. The amount of ex-pats were pretty much expected. However we didn't expect the amount of Japanese that showed up. There were so many that the news showed up to get reactions and do interviews. There wasn't even any seats for us. We ended up sitting up on the corner of the stage.
As they re-played Obama's speech, I filmed the crowd reaction. Just the rapture, the complete attention paid to screen by Pats and Japanese were equal. Obama had inspired such a sense of pride for
everyone around the world that taxi drivers can not help but turn to
me once they find that I'm American and say "On Obama, congratulations."
All I can say is "thank you."
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