Nov 14 2008
Wed-11/4/08-11/5/08- Election Day
You know those days that last forever. Well it seemed like finding out the results of the U.S. election would take a million years. Uganda is ten hours ahead of California and seven hour ahead of N.J./N.Y.
After my first night on the club seen in Africa I didn’t want to go out again. To keep up with what was going on in the U.A. we (Tiffany, Brian, and myself) started the day at Café Pap and sipped African Tea (Spiced—-another blog with details about this wonderful TeaJ—-it’s so good).
We drunk our tea and watched CNN on the big screen t.v. in the café. The election had just got started. We spent the night at three different clubs dancing and stopping to look at the T.V. Screens in each club to see how Obama was doing in the race. The DJ’s periodically gave us club goer’s updates…but of course I already knew as I was not far from the t.v.
Everyone all day wished us luck and high-fived us. Everyone also had on their tee shirts with their cousin Obama’s picture on it.
When we finally got home it was 4:30 a.m. The race was still hard to ell but Barack Obama was in the lead. The final results wouldn’t be known until 6 or 7ish am Ugandan time—Wed. 11/5/08.
We turned on the T.V. when we got home, but I fell asleep. A couple hours later I woke up the t.v. was off. We turned it on and the results were on. Barack Obama was President-elect. Everyone in the house gathered in me and Tiffany’s room. We listened as McCain gave spoke and then Obama followed. The room was silent as Obama spoke. Tears rolled down my cheeks as they did for all the African American women in the house.
We told the kids we would be slaughtering a goat on Wednesday Nov 5th when Barak Obama won.
Election day events: To be continued
