Obama Craze

So yesterday was my first day of classes, yay! I met up with Julia again to find some sort of notebook for school. We had the hardest time! Not in the grocery store, not in the pharmacy, but in a little snack and newspaper shop tucked away in a corner. Nice. So I bought the SUPER ECONOMY PAD, oh yes, quite the deal. Only 3 quid!

Got lunch at the local EAT--ham and cheese baguette, really overstepping my bounds there, and walked down Regent St. to go to class. Inside I met up with Juliette, a french girl studying similar things. I met her in orientation on Friday--she is very nice. So we have the same class thus we headed to the Lecture hall. Its funny, she has the same equivalent of the french "hah hah hahhhn" for Americans. Like she would tease me about it...then I said yeah, all we say is "burger, burger" and "yall" and all you guys say is, "croissant, foux de fa fa, baguette, hah hah hahhhhn". She started laughing. You watch "Flight of the Concords, too" she asked. Hahahaha. So funny. Anyway, class started a little late. The professor walks in---TOTAL NERD--I love it. He reminded me of the nerd in the Harry Potter Movie. I can't remember his name but in one of the movies he gives Harry some plant that gives him gills. Nibble or Nevel, I can't remember. Anyway...imagine him, but all grown up. So funny. So this was my Introduction to Political Concepts and Ideologies class and the first day he lectured us on power. Very strange over here. They don't try to define something in one concrete term. It is all abstract, anything you can possibly conceive from power philosophically is what we were taught. It is harder for me to understand why this is practical, but I will give it a fighting shot.

Ugh...it is so weird how the world has such a strange infatuation with American Politics. I mean, yes, I suppose we are the motor of the world, unfortunately, but still...everyone here wants to marry Obama. Even the men! In class we talked about how Martin Luther King, an American, uses power to empower! But Bush uses is to promote violence and fear. While Obama, the beacon of light for Americans and people around the world, the first black president, will bring us to salvation. Oh goodness.
Seriously though, everyday in the papers all you see is Obama this and Obama that. All the girls in my hostel love Obama and always are asking me about him. You know, I thought I was going to be in my room today, watching the Inaguration in bits and pieces online from a CNN stream. Oh no, I am now attending an OBAMA party. At least it is with other Americans so I shouldn't feel so unpatriotic. But seriously, I think everyone will stop what they are doing today at 5 o'clock to watch this. Can't believe it. He has so much to live up to.