So… here we are; Thursday morning and I must admit all seems normal. I am sitting at my desk, its raining outside and Obama is the US President elect! Seriously, I am so, so happy that he won! Funny when you think that I’m not even America, nor do I travel there but here I am excited at the possibilities… excited for the future that is the USA; excited for the possibilities in relation to the current ‘relationships’ that America has with other nations. This is a great time…

Congratulations Obama!

I loved his acceptance speech… “…yes, we can”, the story of the 106 year old lady and all she had seen; it made me think of some of the elderly people in my family and how long they lived and all they had seen.. Amazing when you sit down and think about it… 106 years old… all the inventions, all the changes in the universe.. the concept of travel from ship to plane… not just the change to colour TV from black & white but the notion of television all together!

Back to president Obama for a moment – hehe, how good does that sound? J

While I was in Indonesia I was chatting to my aunt about the debate that we were watching between Obama and McCain… my cousin walked in and joined into the conversation for a moment and commented about how Obama looked when he was a lot younger which left me confused, so I asked her what on earth she was going on about?

Apparently, she had gone to primary school with him!!!! I know someone and am actually related to someone who went to school with the president of the US!!!! I was in shock!

Proof that there are less than 6 degrees of separation! I tried desperately to convince my aunt at that time that in the even that he won she should call him and congratulate him – you know, an old school friend calling to say! She was like “he probably doesn’t even remember me, it was primary school… and anyway there’d be so many assistants to get through!”

I don’t know why she doesn’t get it? I tried to explain to her that I was essentially 1 person away from meeting/speaking to the president of a country but apparently she bloody won’t be moved!