First, I have to say that when I first started this post, I couldn't get it to write in English. Then I remembered that I enabled the language translator today, and I was writing in Hindi.
Anyway, back our regularly scheduled post. So with the Democratic National Convention ending and the Republican one ending, I am suddenly taken back to a time when I was nine years old. This memory came to me the other day. It was while I was in the fourth grade. I was attending school in Aurora, Colorado. Third grade and two months of fourth grade was the only time that I did not attend my public school education in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The more I think about it, my school in Colorado was probably the best I ever attended. I will save that for another post.
The two months was did go to school there were during a presidential election. The school decided that they were going to teach us about the election process. To do this, they came up with two characters to run. (I don't remember if they were running to be president of the school or a new mascot.) The candidates were Sonic the Hedgehog and Bugs Bunny. All of the classes were assigned a state. I remember that my class and another fourth grade class were the state of Hawaii.
Individually, you got to choose who you were supporting. I chose to support Bugs Bunny. Each candidate held a convention. The two classes made signs for their state and candidate so the two classes divided based on each individual's candidate of choice.
When it came to convention time, I was selected to represent the great state of Hawaii. I stood at the podium and announced how many delegates were there for support of our candidate. It is one of my crowning moments.
Sadly, I left before the election was completed, and I never found out who won. I think they should have used that as an opportunity to teach us about absentee voting.
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