I was bound to talk about the election sometime...

Daddy and I are in Las Vegas this weekend at the Golden Nugget. We are working for the Obama campaign--walking and getting citizens (mostly minorities) registered to vote. Nevada is a swing state and since California is going Obama already, they are sending Californians to Nevada to help out there. We are taking 3 other people with us and splitting the gas. It is a working weekend; but we hope to goof off a little in the evening. We will be back Sunday...

I just received this email from my mom. Am I surprised? Well, not really. My parents, in my earlier life, did A TON of campaigning, but before it was mostly city wide stuff. I remember working at game booths at fairs to earn money for the residents association, walking flyers for different causes or people running for office, picking my dad up after spending all day a the grocery store getting people to sign petitions, staying up really late waiting for election results to come in, parties for candidates etc. etc. etc. Was it any wonder that my first major in college was International Relations? I mean it had to be politics related didn't it?

So now I am doing elementary education totally unpolitical right? WRONG! Education is something my parents are both pretty passionate about. My dad reads A LOT and when I was younger he would "force" us to watch these "really boring" civil war movies and we would get paid for any educational programming we would watch... yea you heard it PAID. My mom was an English teacher by university training and then a school board member for eight years... eight long years. At any rate I will probably be politicking again here soon, especially if my parents DO move to Utah because they will be dragging me to everything. I love my parents and their example to be involved! Now if only UTAH were a swing state ;)