Woooooooohooooo!

It's 5:24 a.m. right now and I'm wide awake. I just spent the night watching the election results with a lot of other students. It was really cool to have everyone gathered around the TV, totally focused on the election and the future US president. I had gone to an election party in Keynes building earlier tonight, but it was too crowded and loud to hear anything. So instead I opted for the smaller TV lounge (which I've recently discovered) in the building next to mine.

It wasn't until 4 o'clock in the morning for us that they announced Barack Obama as the winner. Everyone in the lounge started cheering and high-fiving each other right away. And there were even some people outside who were running back and forth across the car park, yelling and cheering.

I had planned on going to bed at a decent hour and finding out the winner in the morning, but I'm glad I stayed up. It was quite the experience. I especially remember what one girl said right after they announced Obama's victory: "Maybe Americans aren't so backwards after all."