What an amazing day for America! Everyone here in Australia, it seemed, was glued to a television set, watching history unfold. In the School of Psychology we had a large room set aside with a projection TV, with a map where people coloured in states once the results were known, where together we watched that amazing speech. (When Barack Obama spoke of people huddled in a corner of the world listening to a radio, our Head of School quipped "That's us in Australia!..."
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For the first time in a really long time I was not just grateful to have been born in America, a land so rich in opportunity, but was fiercely proud to be American. To be from a country which can inspire such hope to people around the world when we set our mind to it. And you could see that hope mirrored in people's faces all around the world, people celebrating in many dfferent places in the world, wishing us well for the future, wanting to pitch in and help us in trying times. It is so wonderful... Congratulations President-Elect Barack Obama!
Honolulu, Hawaii
At Obama's former school in Jakarta, Indonesia
Barack's step-grandmother Sarah Obama in Kogelo, Kenya.
Sydney, Australia
Japan
Beijing, China
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