Election Time

Though I'm quite a ways away from most of the action surrounding the Presidential Election in the States, I'm trying my best to keep up with the news. I've got my absentee ballot form printed out, and I'm spending my free time in my office reading articles off of Newsweek and The Economist. So I was happy that, despite McCain's campaign suspension, the first debate went ahead as scheduled. We got up on Saturday morning to watch the debates live, and man were we excited.

It's so interesting to follow the election outside of the U.S.---Korean papers actually spend a fair amount of space on Obama and McCain--but it's especially fun to hear my students' opinions. While teaching my writing class last week, students were trying to get me to stop talking about supporting sentences so that they could hear my opinions on McCain and Obama. Most of my students are pretty pro-Obama--in fact, Emily even has a student who's using Obama as his English name. After so many years of trying to figure out what my teachers thought about issues, it's kind of fun for me to see how much I can keep my opinion to myself.

And although the political enthusiast inside of me is enjoying following the scene, I can't help join the rest of the country in looking forward to November and the end of this madness.