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So we thought this day would never come, but it is here. NO MORE BUSH! (at least till Jeb decides to run…). Jokes aside, it is wonderful to have a new President, especially such an inspirational one, that brings with him the hope of change and a new beginning as well as a good knowledge of the English language. Like most everyone else, we are hopeful and excited to see his days in office. Even as memories are starting to fade, we can’t forget the past 8 years of incompetence, fear and repeated assaults to civil liberties. Yes, Barak Obama has to live up to unrealistically high expectations, and yes he will probably fall somewhat short, but this historic election has already accomplished a great feat: after a long time, this country feels united and is looking forward to a new start.

It is difficult to express the palpable feeling of euphoria; and maybe we feel this way because for the first time the candidate we both supported actually won, and we feel that our beliefs are finally represented. Will he be a great president? We don’t know, but we surely hope so. At the very least, we think we will probably not have to feel embarrassed by his ignorance and gaffes. (Tizi hopes the same could be true for the Iitalian prime minister…what would happen to mini-Bush???).

Thank you to modern technology, Tizi was able to see the inauguration live, streaming over the internet (Matt had to listen to it via radio…no streaming allowed at his work). It was very emotional: the whole school, classroom by classroom was connected (which explains some of the choking up of the stream). We also Ti-voed, to see it later, without rush and we made an exception to our “no TV” rule for this special occasion( of course Keegan’s interest lasted only a few minutes, but still he participated to the historic event). Even Keegan got caught up in the excitement. He was banging at the TV and saluting the 44th president on this historic day…

what is going on here?

Who’s that guy?

hail to the chief

O-BA-MA, O-BA-MA, O-BA-MA!

…or was he just pointing out to an airplane? By the way, just to clear any misconceptions, the one below IS his way to signal an airplane (or any other flying object) and no some sinister political gesture. How do we know? He stops in the middle of anything he is doing when he hears a plane, point to the sky, and generally turns in the direction of the noise. What a weird kid…

nobody moves…an airplane is flying by!

And yes, we are the only people in America that still have not upgraded to at least a flat screen TV, let alone HDTV or Plasma…but honestly we probably watch 10 hours a week if that…and we still have the projector for movies.

Beside signing airplane and “I am done”(both pulling on a real or imaginary bib and waving his hands), there is no much more communication from his part, yet; however his understanding has increased: he now understands also yogurt, bread, monkey (he gets his stuffed monkey), Gongolo (one of the 7  dwarfs spelled in Italian, also a stuffed toy), tent (as it refers to his frog tent), say “ciao”, food, come here, not in your mouth (but he does not obey to this one), push, pull and probably others we don’t notice yet. Most of these are spoken in Italian, but he understands some English as well.