This weekend I started volunteering for the Obama 2012 campaign! It's something I've considered doing for a while, and the opportunity presented itself, so I seized it! Barack is coming to Cincinnati today, so I stopped by the campaign headquarters Friday to find out how to get tickets. They told me how to get them (that they would be free and available for pickup on Saturday), but then they mentioned that if you volunteered on Saturday to help with the distribution of the tickets, you would be guaranteed a ticket. I called Emily back in Louisville, she came up Saturday morning, and we went to volunteer at the campaign headquarters in Cincinnati!
It was such an amazing experience! Emily's and my job was to make sure people filled out their tickets before they left, so we literally saw every person who came through. There were so many different kinds of people: homeschool families who are using this opportunity as a social studies lesson, girls all dressed up with Michael Kors handbags, homeless people who asked if they should put their pastor's address down since they didn't have one, college students who looked like they'd just gotten out of bed, people with dogs, high school teachers, goth people, middle school boys who were trying so hard not to care about any of this but were so jazzed up inside, delightfully stereotypical gay couples, people who had just come from working out, blind people, beautiful old couples, stressed out moms with a few kids in tow, and I'm sure there are others I missed! And the languages being spoken! French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Ukrainian, Dutch, and English, just to name a few! Just seeing all those people there from so many different backgrounds for the same cause was inspiring!
Today all of us, young to old, male and female, gay to straight, quiet and loud, will gather together to rally behind our President. We are choosing to put all differences aside to promote one common goal: our country's continued progress. I love it! I am so excited!
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." --Gandhi
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