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Firsthand History- Monday- 1st period
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throughaphaseOver the weekend the students had gotten an email telling them to wear/bring warm clothes and meet at the causeway. When everyone got there, they took a portal off into the middle of the Washington mall, which was cold, and very crowded. If you hadn't put those layers on, you might want to now.
"We have a presidential election this week, and if you've been following the news at all, thank god," Kitty said. "Every four years we elect someone, usually from one of two political parties, though there can be more, to lead the country. In 2008, we elected Barack Obama, a Senator from Illinois, and the first black man to ever become president. It took forty-three people before we got to that, so you might have a clue as to how historic this was. Not only that, weeks before the election, the stock market crashed, throwing us into a recession he had to pull us out of. Over the course of two terms for a total of eight years, he managed to do it." And maybe Kitty hadn't been here for a lot of that, but still. Collective 'us.'
"So here we are, on January 20, 2009, as he's inaugurated into office. And remember to take in the awesomeness of the hat when we get to it."
"We have a presidential election this week, and if you've been following the news at all, thank god," Kitty said. "Every four years we elect someone, usually from one of two political parties, though there can be more, to lead the country. In 2008, we elected Barack Obama, a Senator from Illinois, and the first black man to ever become president. It took forty-three people before we got to that, so you might have a clue as to how historic this was. Not only that, weeks before the election, the stock market crashed, throwing us into a recession he had to pull us out of. Over the course of two terms for a total of eight years, he managed to do it." And maybe Kitty hadn't been here for a lot of that, but still. Collective 'us.'
"So here we are, on January 20, 2009, as he's inaugurated into office. And remember to take in the awesomeness of the hat when we get to it."