A Post from California

Here is an e-mail from a friend in California who read your postings. If you want to write to her, let me know!


Your students "got it.'  great  command of the language as well.


America has been a world leader that in the past years has sunk low inprosperity, respect, self confidence.


Obama  is the anti-Bush, the opposite of Bush.  Obama is a learned man, a young man, raised in modest family with great hope.


Where Ms Koch used to live about 80% prefer him.  He is well educated, he is worldy, he has traveled.  On that way he is  similar to many of the  Coastal Californians.  Is it not so important the color of his skin.  In fact, like many of us who have one parent from one race or religion and the other parent different, he is a mix, "brown" not black.


Days before the election, hundreds of people were on their cell phones, in groups and at the campaign headquarters for Palo Alto near a donut shop.  In the rain, people sat under trees and umbrellas calling stranger in other states to ask:  "will you vote?, do you  need help getting to the polling place?"


My writer friend in New York said people were screaming in the street  at the victory.  Let's stay in touch.

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Good luck with your English and good work.

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