Election night fun!

We went out for pizza, followed it by a trip to the ice cream parlour, then headed back to campus to watch the election results come in (what else would one do on election night?)  

First stop: main centre for election night viewing on campus, equipped with huge screen, multiple laptops (for the most up-to-date restults), chocolate, fizzy drinks, blank maps of the USA with crayons for colouring-in the different states when the results came in, and Hebrew homework.

Second stop: corridor party at one of the campus residences (the building where Dawn, Paul and Rebekah live).  Complete with beer, corn chips, a fuzzy television, only one laptop, music and lots of laughter.

A walk through the campus car park reminds me what a diverse community we are geographically.  The license plates on the cars and occasional pickup truck include: New Jersey, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, California (who on earth drove here all the way from California?), Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.  I have friends here at YDS who voted in all of these last three states (and many others), which meant that there was a personal element to the election results as they rolled in.  As you can imagine, there is a wide range of political stances represented here, but the overwhelming response to Obama's win was of massive celebration.