This is what the world just outside of my apartment door looked like when President Barack Obama was declared the winner of the Presidential Election of 2008. "Where were you when..." comes to mind. I never thought i'd have one of those positive historical nights. We had the moon landing--i wasn't even a thought in the wind. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke, the ground shook as his heavy words fell, and i missed that too. Fast forward a few decades, and here i sit, in my college apartment, having voted for the first black president of these United States of America. Music and horns blared outside my apartment door. People who didn't know one another hugged intensely. I saw a lot of crying faces. I shook alot of hands, gave a lot of hugs, yelled a whole bunch. It was just a relief. You can't work as hard as Barack and his campaign staff AND his family did, and not reap appropriate rewards. He deserves this position of leadership. His vision and politics is unlike anything in recent history. I'm happy for him. I'm happy for the US. I'm happy the world will see who we truly are in the years to come.