Inauguration Day

Since this was my first time witnessing a president being swore in, everything was new to me. To many people this was a historical day because people never thought that we would live to see a black president. I connected this back to an old song I knew called "Changes" by Tupac and one of the verses says is " but are we ready to see a black president". This shows that even years back people never believed that this would come true. To everyone it was amazing to know and be apart of history by voting for Barack Obama. Even though there were many people who could not vote many played apart in the voting process by registering people to vote. For my first time ever seeing this I was really interested in what Obama had to say and what we can expect in the years to come. Being in Andy's class has taught me a lot because there is material I have learned, that opened my eyes to be able to see it in the real world. There were many things that were mentioned in the speech that we spoke about in class such as what will happen to education and health care. Personally, I care about what will happen to education and what is going to be done with health care because everyone needs health care. I feel as if even though we are in a recession there are many things that Obama is trying to fix such as wages. Since Obama has been sworn in as the new 44th president, he has put a freeze on salaries for making more than $100,000. I feel like this is just the beginning of what is going to happen. I would like to see a change in America because as the years go by everything has been going downhill. Unemployment has sky rocketed, health care has become so expensive that many people can not afford to get the care they need. I am excited that I was able to experience and understand everything that was going on from the election to the inauguration. I am excited as well as fearful of what is to come because I feel as if we as Americans have set our expectations really high for Obama. What will happen if everything we thought would change didn't? But for right now all we need to do is wait because everything is not going to happen in the blink of an eye. Change takes time.