On Friday, I started my day with my usual routine. The clothes I laid out the night before were a nicer than usual, what with my black jeans and a blazer, but my cat decided they were a wonderful bed. I tried to use tape to get the fur off but, alas, it was not going to work. Knowing it may rain, I also looked everywhere in my closet for a raincoat or at least something with a hood, but I could not find anything. So you could see my day was starting off not exactly how I planned.
When I got to school, the first three classes went normally, the sky was shinning, and I was just dying to leave. We were all dying to leave and you could just see the excitement on everyone's faces. By the time we got on the bus it was almost too much to bear. We were just frustrated with waiting by then. It started to drizzle and the air was cold so everyone closed their windows, but it was nothing we couldn't handle. We could've went home if we really wanted to, but no one did. We were committed and in this for the long-haul.
You can see how excited I am (left) as well as two of my friends, Tyler (middle) and Erica (right).
So here we were. While going through security I emptied out pockets and randomly found an earplug in my pocket. Te guard just looked at me like I was stupid for having that and then to verbally make his point he said "Why would you bring earplugs to hear the President?" To which I mumbled something about how I just found it and walked away beat red because I'm just that weird.
AND THEN IT WAS TIME..
and by it was time I mean it was time to wait for 3 hours in the pouring rain. Everyone was wearing trash bags and my friend Jessie (right) and I looked everywhere for the people who were passing them out but we couldn't maneuver through the crowd. This pretty much resulted in the great pneumonia attack of 2012.
See those faces? Those are not the faces of happy campers. These are the faces of two girls who are soaked and shivering.
Those three agonizingly freezing hours later Obama finally arrived, and people were hyped up. I even tried to push myself closer to the stage so I could see him.. but I still couldn't. I didn't realize how short I was until that moment when I couldn't see over half the people in front of me. All of the other students there talked loudly the whole time and I couldn't hear past that and cheering. The guy next to me thought it was important to talk to me about how "Unemployment just went from 8.1% to 7.6% this morning!" and how "I love how dedicated and eager young kids like you are about politics." So my only shot left was to jump as high as I could repeatedly like an idiot until I caught a glimpse of Obama's face. Honestly, the only thing I could make out was his skin color and ears. The rest was a blur that was gone before I could register it. Then with a proud "Thank you and God bless America!" it was over.
You can't even see him in this picture that I took on my tip-toes with my arm up as high as I could reach.
We were cold and tired and wanted to get out of there. We followed the crowd out of the gates and then walked around until we found some familiar faces.. but there weren't any. Panic struck in. Where was the rest of the students? Where were the chaperons? Where did we go? We decided to retrace our steps and see if everyone went back to where buses should be. We only went halfway until we saw little clusters of students buying food, taking pictures, and wandering off as clueless as us. When we finally all gathered parking lot, we had just wanted to get out of there immediately. After a ton of walking and confusion about buses all of the students had to wait until around until 4:45 in a part of CSU.
Here's Erica and Tyler trying to huddle up and stay warm by the windows in the building we were in the shelter from the rain.
We were cold, we were tired, and I had tripped several times into puddles because of my shoes had fleece bottoms. By the time we met with everyone I wanted punch someone and then freeze to death. It was not my day.
Overall, the experience was awful and the only thing I can say about it is at least I get to say I was there.
If you want to see it from a choppy, not really informative, not feeling horrible rain on you way here's the link to the only video I could find of him being there: Have fun.
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