Thursday, I stood in line for a hour and in the rain just to get a free ticket to see President Obama deliver a speech at the University of Richmond. Not a big deal, right?
Friday, I left my dorm at 7:30 and arrived at the University of Richmond Robins Center around 8:00. The long was ridiculously long and it took me a few minutes to walk all the way to the end (yeah, that's how long it was). I stood in that long for two hours before finally being able to go in, where we were checked "ariport like security." While standing in line though I was able to observe some of the people around me. All you ever hear about on the news was how President Obama's approval rating had dropped to its lowest point. Yet, looking at all of these people -about 9,000, according to an article- they all still believed in the man that promised a change almost four years ago. There were people campaigning for him, telling us to vote for him in 2012. Being from a redneck county, it was nice to have a change of scenery, to be around people who actually were with him and not agaisnt him.
A high school student from Richmond Communty High School introduced the President. The boy did a really good job with his introduction and he was really well spoken.
When the President arrived, the people went CRAZY!!!
Oh, and ignore the guy whistling; he did that during the whole speech. He was really annoying; he even tried to hit on me at one poin: EWWWWW get away from me you old perv!!!
This is the second time I have attended a rally from President Obama; I went to one in Newport News (about 40 minutes from my hometown) back before he was elected president. So to see him as President - to even be in the same building as him- was a completely fantastic experience. He even referenced us college students, by saying that we need to hit the books. We are now competing agaisnt students in Bangalore and Beijing and we can't avoid the math classes and engineering classes. We have to focus and up our game.
He spoke about the bills he wants to pass and how he knows there are naysayers out there that expected him to get everything right that was wrong in a short span of time. Stuff like that takes a while to pass. President Obama has his head on straight and knows what he is doing; like a friend of mine said, he doesn't sugarcoat anything. Give the man a break and stop badgering him because of the color of his skin. Gosh.
The Univeristy of Richmond had a beautiful campus, so I had to take pictures. At first, I wished I had applied, then, after I picked up a brochure and looked at the tution, I was happy I didn't. Tuition is 43, 000, NOT including room and board, which is an extra 9,000.
On today, I went to mass for the first time while in Richmond. The church is actually on VCU's campus, The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. And, adding up to its name, it's huge on the inside! And very beautiful. I went on the right day (thanks to my grandma) because they played my favorite song "I Danced in the Morning" and had a dinner afterwards for VCU students. I wasn't going to go to the dinner at first because I had some studying to do, but decided to go because a variety of foods sounded better than just a sandwich and chips for dinner. I also figured that now I'm in college, I shouldn't let everything pass me by like I let it did back in high school, so I went for it.
The dinner was really good (enchiladas, black beans and rice, salad, and a few dessert options. The people were really nice and very funny. Never have I met anymore nicer people on campus than today at the dinner. After the dinner, we took a tour of the "house", the back part of the cathedral, which is just like its name- a house. After the tour, a group of us just sat down and talked about our majors and other different stuff I can't remember. We even put together little candy bags for the open house this week.
Overall, I really enjoyed my weekend, as you can tell.
Today is also ten years of the day of the terroist attacks on the World Trade Center. I watched the ceremonies on the news this morning, but it was too emotional so I went back and forth between my computer and the TV.
This is the story that touched me the most.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/boy-read-poem-13-grown-135446727.html
Psalm 46:1: "God is our refuge and strength."
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