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Stayed up until midnight last night to watch the election results and saw nothing but an empty magic board on CNN. Better news this morning though! We had about 10 minutes with the news this morning before rushing out of the house for school. Looked up at the Heidelberger Platz Ubahn stop and noticed a train full of red, white, and blue balloons. The crowd got louder as we exited the train with our kids and headed down Hohenzollerdamm toward the Nelson Mandela School. I was chatting with a black American man in a white suit with a red cowboy hat whose son's backpack was festooned with Obama balloons. He'd just flown in from the States and was hoarse from singing for Obama--told me to watch for him on all the major networks. School was a carcophany of hoots, whoops, and hollers among the adults, but the kids really surprised me. They were parading through the hallways with homemade "Obama Won!" signs. Who knew Germans cared so much about the American presidency? Oh right, its other name is the Berlin International School, and it's named for an anti-apartheid leader who has come to symbolize freedom, equality, racial reconciliation, and the possibilities of change. Awesome.